⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

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

ahuializtli.

Headword: 
ahuializtli.
Principal English Translation: 

smoothness of aroma, or of something pleasing and delicious (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
auializtli
IPAspelling: 
ɑhwiɑːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

auializtli. suauidad de olor, o de cosa gustosa y sabrosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

AHHUIĀLIZ-TLI fragrance / suavidad de olor, o de cosa gustosa y sabrosa (M) See AHHUIĀYA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 6.

themes: 
Emotions
Food, Eating, Cooking
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)