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amoxtli.

Headword: 
amoxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of water plant (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh yn oncā omoteneuh yn acucolco, oncan ynpan motlalli yn mexica huehuetque ynic quilpillizquia yn īxtiuh, auh ayemo huel quilpillique yn inxiuh yn oncā acucolco ypampa yn yaoyotl oncā ynpan mochiuh, auh yhuan yn oncā omoteneuh yn acucolco, oncan quimoquentique yn mexica yn quitocayotia amoxtli = And when the ancient Mexica settled among [their foes] in the aforesaid Acocolco, they would then have bound their years. But they could not yet bind their years in Acocolco because of the war that was made on them. And also it was in the aforesaid Acocolco that the Mexica dressed themselves in what they called amoxtli. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 74–75.

ye oncan yn amoxtli quimoquentihque = There they clothed themselves with water plants.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 28–29.

y manel yehuatl ychcatl amo yntech huallacia yn mexica ynic cenca motoliniticatca çan yehuatl yn ce quintin macehualtzitzinti mexica yn quimoquentiaya yhuan cequintin quimomaxtlatiaya yn amoxtli yn atitlan = At least the cotton never reached the Mexica since the Mexica were very poor. Only some of the poor Mexica commoners clothed themselves, and some wore breechclouts of marsh plants that grew by the water. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 110–111.