ahuihuitla

ahuihuitla

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

ahuihuitla (plural ahuihuitlameh)

1. swamp worm
   • c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 26r

     yhuan ye quixinachohua yn mimichtin. yn cueyame. yn axollome. yn acociltin. aneneztin. ahuihuitlame yn axaxayacatl. yn quatecomatl. yoyolli.

     (And fish now bred, and frogs, salamanders, crayfish, draonfly, larvae, swamp worms, winged water insects, [other] insects)

References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 80–81
• Wimmer, Alexis (2006), “Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl classique”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, archived from the original on 2007-11-10, retrieved 24 November 2007