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yaomitl.

Headword: 
yaomitl.
Principal English Translation: 

an arrow associated with warfare (see also the attestations, many drawing from the work Ross Hassig)
Ross Hassig, Aztec Warfare (1988), 79.

Orthographic Variants: 
yāōmītl
Attestations from sources in English: 

yaomime = arrows. They could be single-pointed, blunt, or barbed; and the barbs could be made of "obsidian, flint, or fishbone." They were kept in a quiver (mixiquipilli).
See: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World (2007), 113.

The yāōmītl could be barbed with "obsidian, chert, flint, or bone ridges." The quiver was also called a mīcomītl.
See: Fouad Sabry, Aztec Warfare (2024).

themes: 
Hunting or Fishing
War, Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry
See also: 
yaotl.
mitl.
xiquipilli.