poyotl.

Headword: 
poyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

something evil (see Karttunen); or, something rotten or decaying; the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl includes what would be "spot or rust on a plant"--"Tache, rouille (d'une plante)"--and "Baho."

Orthographic Variants: 
poyōtl
IPAspelling: 
poyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

POYŌ-TL something evil / cosa mala, algo mal (K) [(1)Bf.12v]. This is more common in reduplicated form POPOYŌ-TL 'rottenness, decay.'
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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