Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

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

ahuiltia.

Headword: 
ahuiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to amuse oneself, play (see Lockhart); to pass the time (see Molina); to play with something (see IDIEZ); or, to rape someone (see our entry for āhuiltia from IDIEZ, contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl)

Orthographic Variants: 
auiltia
IPAspelling: 
ɑːwiltiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

auiltia. nin. (pret. oninauilti.) passar tiempo.
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.

auiltia. nin. (pret. oninauilti.) passar tiempo.
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.

auiltia. nite. (pret. oniteauilti.) dar plazer a otro con algun juego regozijado, o retozar a alguna persona.
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.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

āhuiltia, nin = to amuse oneself, play. Class 3: ōnināhuiltih
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), 210.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
Sports, Games, Leisure