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atotonilli.

Headword: 
atotonilli.
Principal English Translation: 

hot water (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːtotonilli
Alonso de Molina: 

atotonilli. agua caliente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

See the glyph for Atotonilco (a place name) as reproduced from the Codex Mendoza, published in our online Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/atotonilco.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

achtopa atotoniltica anquixamizque anquicamapacazque, anquitequilizque in izti = primero le lauen la cara y las manos y la boca con agua caliente y cortalle las uñas (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Martín de León, Camino al cielo en lengua mexicana (Mexico: Diego López, 1611), 136v.

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