Headword:
yaomitl.
Principal English Translation:
an arrow associated with warfare (see also the attestations, many drawing from the work Ross Hassig)
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).
The yāōmītl could be barbed with "obsidian, chert, flint, or bone ridges." The quiver was also called a mīcomītl.
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