aotli.

Headword: 
aotli.
Principal English Translation: 

water pipe, aqueduct, canal (see Molina and attestations); literally, a water-road

Orthographic Variants: 
aohtli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

aotli. caño de agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 6v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aotontli = literally: "at the little water road", see Beyond the Codices 84/116m: 49r
Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

1615. años. yhcuac oquipehualtico. i ye quicuauhtzotzona huey aohtli in xuchimilcopa huitz = the year 1615, was when they began to drive piles in the great canal coming from Xochimilco (central Mexico, 1615)
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), 300–1.

yquac acico yn aotli Sant Juan = was when the aqueduct reached San Juan (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), 28–29.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

aotli, canal, acueducto, se compone de atl, agua y otli, camino
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.

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