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ocholli.

Headword: 
ocholli.
Principal English Translation: 

a bundle of grapes, or the like (see Molina; Engl. transl. by SW)

a cluster of maize ears (Anderson and Dibble, Florentine Codex, Book 9, Folio 49v)

IPAspelling: 
otʃoːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

ocholli. colgajo de vuas, o de cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 75r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents ocholli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

anoço ocholli, centlalpilli, ontlalpilli = a cluster of maize ears, one or two bunches [referring to gifts put before Totec, a divine force)
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book undefined: The Merchants", fol. 49v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/49v. Accessed 31 August 2025. On this page, the Nahuatl transcription and translation comes from Anderson and Dibble.