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tochmotla.

Headword: 
tochmotla.
Principal English Translation: 

to hunt rabbits (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōchmōtla
IPAspelling: 
toːtʃmoːtɬɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌCHMŌTLA to hunt rabbits / caza conejos (T) [(3)Tp.242]. See TŌCH-TLI, MŌTLA.

TŌCHMŌCHILIĀ applic. TŌCHMŌTLA.

TŌCHMŌTLALŌ nonact. TŌCHMŌTLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 242.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Hunting or Fishing