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ajo.

Headword: 
ajo.
Principal English Translation: 

garlic

Attestations from sources in English: 

Aio. lo mismo. vel. castillan xonacatl (Molina 1992, I: 7v). =Garlic, the same or castilian onion. [cultural encyclopedia (FC 11), vocabulary(TCV, VM 1); time range: 1571–1578/1580, 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 68.

MEMEIA xiuhtontli: çan centetl in mochioa in jnelhoaio ololtontli iuhqujn in axos: çã ce in jiollo tlacotontli, xipetztic. =“MEMEYA It is a small herb, which grows only one stalk. Its root is small and round like garlic; only one is its core, a small stick, smooth” (Sahagún 1950–82,XI: 161). [cultural encyclopedia (FC 11), vocabulary(TCV, VM 1); time range: 1571–1578/1580, 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 68.

Quemman niyauh tianquiz nochipa niccohua miac ahoz(Sullivan et al. 2016: 15). =When I go to the market, I always buy a lot of
garlic. [cultural encyclopedia (FC 11), vocabulary(TCV, VM 1); time range: 1571–1578/1580, 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 68.