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something full of ants

for something to become full of ants, swell with ants (see Molina)

ɑhso
Orthographic Variants: 
aço, ahzo, azoc

perhaps, maybe, by chance (see Molina); see also our separate entry for zo in contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, which means "or"

ɑhsok
Orthographic Variants: 
àçoc, azoc, açoc

maybe even; perhaps (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
açolin

Wilson's Snipe, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

ɑːsoloːni
Orthographic Variants: 
āzolōni

for a blister to form, for water to bubble up (see Karttunen)

ɑːsoloːniɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
āzolōniā

to blister something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
açotes

a lash from a whip (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
açoça, açoça, azozan

perhaps, by chance (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
açoçan, açoça, azoza

perhaps (see Molina)

color of dirty water.
Orthographic Variants: 
aztahatl

a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

flag or banner decorated with heron feathers (see Mikulska)

ɑstɑpiltik

something very white (see Molina); heron feathers were very white, lending the word for heron (aztatl) to the color in this case (SW)

Snowy Egret feathered bib or ritual garment

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.

Orthographic Variants: 
aztatepiton

a small heron (see Molina)

Snowy Egret, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); also, a term for a heron-feather headdress (see Molina and attestations)

a type of plumage found on garments (see Alvarado Tezozomoc); also a person's name (attested male)

wormwood or absinthe (plants) (see Molina)