Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

xohuilin.

Headword: 
xohuilin.
Principal English Translation: 

a spottail chub; a fish something like trout
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 66r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/66r/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
xouilin
IPAspelling: 
ʃowilin
Alonso de Molina: 

xouilin. pescado de a palmo que parece trucha.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Hunting or Fishing