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amilotl.

Headword: 
amilotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a shortfin silverside (Florentine Codex); a white fish (see Molina)
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.

IPAspelling: 
ɑmilotɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

amilotl. pescado blanco, como albur.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 5r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

amilome = white fish (pl.), called amilotes in Spanish (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 88–89.

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