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ahuilnemiliztli.

Headword: 
ahuilnemiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a carnal and illicit sex-loving life (see Molina); lust (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
auilnemiliztli
IPAspelling: 
ɑːwilnemilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

auilnemiliztli. vida carnal o luxuriosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Andrés de Olmos: 

auilnemiliztli = la lujuria
D. Dehouve, reseña de Fray Andrés Olmos: Tratado sobre los siete pecados morales, Paleografía del texto náhuatl, versión española, introducción, y notas de Georges Baudot (México: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 1996), en Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl (2009), 333.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ahuilnemiliztli = pleasurable living (from the Nahua point of view)
Louise Burkhart, The Slippery Earth (1989), 105.

ipampa amo qujtlatlaculmatia in avilnemjlizjotl = because they did not consider lust a wrong (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 34.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction