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cozatli.

Headword: 
cozatli.
Principal English Translation: 

weasel

Orthographic Variants: 
coçatli, coçamatl, coçama, cozama
IPAspelling: 
koːsɑhtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

cozatli. comadreja.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CŌZAH-TLI pl: -MEH weasel, ferret / comadreja (M), hurón (T) [(1)Tp.123].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 43.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Also called cozamatl.

yn coçatli coçamatl mitoaya yn aca quiyacaviltequi amo vel yas in campa yaznequi = the weasel, it was said that when a weasel crossed in front of someone, he would not go where he wished to go
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 175.

coçatli = Weasel, a name given to a child
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 254.

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