Hay unos pececillos pequeñuelos que se llaman xalmichi.
\nHay otros pececillos barrigudillos que se crían en el cieno. Llámanlos cuitlapétutl. Son medicinales para los niños.
\nHay unos pececitos muy pequeños que se llaman michzacuan, que quiere decir "pequeñitos peces". Andan juntos herviendo. Voelan como saeta de una parte a otra. Son ligeros en andar de una parte a otra.
\nTodos estos peces son pequeñitos, que aquí abaxo se ponen: [yayauhqui michi, íztac michi, michteuhtli]1
\nPeces tostados y envueltos en hoja de mazorca. Se llaman michpictli.
\nPececitos tostados en comal. Se llaman michtlacectli.
\nEstos peces se encuentran en el texto náhuatl.↩
There are some tiny little fish that are called xalmichin.
\nThere are other little fish, rather big bellied, that live in the mud. They call them cuitlapetotl. They are medicinal for children.
\nThere are some very tiny little fish that are called michzacua, which means “tiny little fish.” They swim together in schools.1 They fly like an arrow from one place to another. They are swift as they move from one place to another.
\nAll the fish that are written here below are tiny: yayauhqui michin, iztac michin, michteuhtli.2
\nFish that are toasted and wrapped in corn husks are called michpictli.
\nSmall fish toasted on the comal3 are called michtlacectli.
\n“They swim together in schools”: “Andan juntos herviendo.” The corresponding Nahuatl term is cuecueioni (They go together foaming [or boiling]).↩
The names of these fish are found in the Nahuatl column in the manuscript, not in the Spanish.↩
comal: griddle; Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word comalli.↩
mjchi, cujtlatolontic, ololtontli, quechacquj, iuhqujn topotli: tzonteconchichic, iaiauhquj.
\nqujtoznequj. mjchconetl; in tepiton mjchi, cuecueionjnj, motlamjnanj, tzitzicujcanj, tzitzicujca, motlamjna, cuecueionj.
\nIaiauhquj mjchi: anoço mjchiaiauhquj, can novian in nemj.\nIztac mjchi: tepiton, tequjxqujapan in mochioa.
\nqujtoznequj. mjchin tepitoton: in aço iztac, in aço iaiauhquj: oc tlaquauh qujtoznequj, tepitoton mjchi tlaoatzalli.
\nin mjchin comalco tlacuxitl, in izoac catquj.
\nMichtlacectli: in mjchin tepitoton, in comalco tlacuxitilli.
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\nIt is a big-bellied fish, small and round, stiff-necked, like the topotli. Its head is bitter, dark.
\nIt means “baby fish.” It is a small fish which goes in schools. It is a darter, an agile one. It is agile, it darts, it swims in schools.
\nThe Yayauhqui Michin3 or dark fish lives everywhere.4
\nThe White Fish is small; it breeds in saline water.
\nIt means “very small fish,” either white or dark. Especially it means “small dried fish.”
\nThese are fish cooked on a griddle. They are [wrapped] in [maize] husks.
\nMichtlacectli are small fish cooked on a griddle.
\nXalmichi: Chirostoma humboldtianum (ibid., p. 368). See also Santamaría, op. cit., p. 627 (jalmichi).↩
Cuitlapetotl: Sahagún, op. cit., p. 332, reads cuitlapetlatl, identified as Girardinichthys innominatus. See also Hernández, op. cit., p. 402.↩
Iaiauhqui: “la menor de las especies llamadas xohuilin, un pececillo de lago escamoso y negruzco, de donde el nombre” (Hernández, op. cit., p. 395).↩
Read çan as in Acad. Hist. MS.↩