roe, insect larvae, or plant that grows in water, marsh hay (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
āpachtli
IPAspelling:
ɑːpɑtʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina:
apachtli. ouas que se crian dentro del agua. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 6v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ĀPACH-TLI roe, insect lavae, or plant that grows in water, marsh hay / ovas que se crían dentro del agua (M), planta que crece detro del río, heno (T)[(1)Tp.170]. See Ā-TL, PACH-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 11.