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Olmos.

Headword: 
Olmos.
Principal English Translation: 

a surname, taken by some Nahuas; this is the name of a famous Nahuatlato, Fray Andrés de Olmos, who did ethnographic and linguistic work in central Mexico (SW)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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