(a loanword from Spanish)
Principal English Translation:
duck
(a loanword from Spanish)
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
patox = a duck (a loanword from Spanish; seemingly plural, patox and patos, as loanwords, can intend a singular meaning)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 229.
Attestations from sources in English:
centetl nihuitilma patosyhuitl (Tlaxcala, 1566)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 1, p. 44.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
ome patosti = dos patos (Toluca, 1621)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 134–135.