Hay unos animalejos en el agua que se llaman axólotl. Tienen pies y manos como lagartillas, y tienen la cola como anguilla, y el cuerpo también. Tienen muy ancha la boca, y barbas en el pescuezo. Es muy buena de comer. Es comida de los señores.
\nHay unos animalejos del agua que se llaman acocili. Son casi como camarones. Tienen la cabeza como langostas. Son pardillos, y cuando los coecen páranse colorados como camarones. Son de comer cocidos, y también tostados.
\nHay otro animalejo en el agua que se llama aneneztli. Es larguillo y redondo. Tiene manos y pies, y tiene ancha la cabeza. Es pardillo. Son de comer. Vuélvense aquellos coquillos que tienen cuatro alas, y voelan, y llámanlos cavillanes en Castilla.
\nHay unos coquillos del agua que
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"65edf2a8-a9c2-487f-9f02-9d4377f1da2e","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"There are some small water animals that are called _axolotl_. They have hands and feet like lizards, and they have a tail and also a body like an eel. They have very wide mouths and whiskers on their necks. It is very good to eat. It is a meal fit for lords.\n\nThere are some small water animals that are called _acocilin_.[^37] They are almost like shrimp. They have heads like lobsters. They are grayish brown, and when cooked, they turn red, like shrimp. They are edible when boiled and also roasted.\n\nThere is another small water animal that is called _aneneztli_. It is rather long and round. It has hands and feet, and it has a broad head. It is grayish brown. They are edible. They turn into those insects that have four wings and fly, and they call them _cavilanes_[^38] in Castile.\n\nThere are some water insects that \n\n\n[^37]: _acocilin_: Sahagún conflates the Spanish plural _animalejos del agua_ (small water animals) with the Nahuatl singular form _acocilin_ (_acocili_ in LAGQ), whose plural unpossessed form would be _acocilmeh_.\n\n[^38]: _cavilanes_: alternative spelling for _gavilanes_ (sparrowhawks).","html":"There are some small water animals that are called axolotl. They have hands and feet like lizards, and they have a tail and also a body like an eel. They have very wide mouths and whiskers on their necks. It is very good to eat. It is a meal fit for lords.
\nThere are some small water animals that are called acocilin.1 They are almost like shrimp. They have heads like lobsters. They are grayish brown, and when cooked, they turn red, like shrimp. They are edible when boiled and also roasted.
\nThere is another small water animal that is called aneneztli. It is rather long and round. It has hands and feet, and it has a broad head. It is grayish brown. They are edible. They turn into those insects that have four wings and fly, and they call them cavilanes2 in Castile.
\nThere are some water insects that
\niuhqujnma cuetzpali, mamae, cujtlapile, cujtlapilpatlachtic, camacoiaoac, papaoa, tzotlactic, vel nacaio, nacatetic, nanacaio: haomjo, amo cenca omjo; qualli, iectli, qualonj, aviac, tetonal.
\niuhqujn chacali. In jtzontecon: iuhqujn chapoltzontecomatl, tepiton, iaiactontli, mâmaie. Auh in oicucic tlatlavic: tlatlauhquj, oapaoac, oapactic: qualonj, hiceconj, paoaxonj. Nacocilicequj; nacocilpaoaci, nacocilnamaca.
\nmelactontli, mjmjltontli, cuêcueio, mamaie: quapatlachtic, quapatlachiuhquj, iaiactic, iaiauhquj: qualonj, mocuepanj; cincocopi mocuepa, cincocopiti.
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\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"53abc09f-86c1-4064-9798-5eb8b6436410","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"##### Axolotl[^2]\n\nLike the lizard, it has legs, it has a tail, a wide tail. It is large-mouthed, bearded. It is glistening, well-fleshed, heavily fleshed, meaty. It is boneless—not very bony; good, fine, edible, savory: what one deserves.\n\n##### Acocilin[^3]\n\nIt is like the shrimp. Its head is like a grasshopper’s. It is small, dark; it has legs. But when cooked, it is red, ruddy, hard, firm. It is edible; it can be toasted, it can be cooked. I toast, I cook, I sell *acocilin*.\n\n##### Aneneztli[^4]\n\nIt is long and small, cylindrical, glistening. It has legs. The head is broad, wide. It is dark, swarthy. It is edible. It is an insect which transforms itself. It turns itself into a *cincocopi*; it becomes a *cincocopi*.\n\n##### Axaxayacatl[^5] or Quatecomatl\n\nIt is small and round, \n\n\n\n\n[^2]: *Axolotl: Amblystoma tigrinum* L., *Proteus mexicanus, Sideron humboldti* (*ibid.,* p. 323).\n\n\n[^3]: *Acocili: Cambarellus montezumae* (Santamaría, *op. cit.,* p. 21).\n\n\n[^4]: *Aneneztli: Larva de libelula* (dragonfly)—Sahagún, *op. cit.,* p. 321.\n\n\n[^5]: *Axaxayacatl:* defined in Santamaría, *op. cit.,* as *Ephidra californica* Torrey or possibly *Corixa* sp.: see *aguaucle* (p. 42) and *axayacate* (p. 100).","html":"Like the lizard, it has legs, it has a tail, a wide tail. It is large-mouthed, bearded. It is glistening, well-fleshed, heavily fleshed, meaty. It is boneless—not very bony; good, fine, edible, savory: what one deserves.
\nIt is like the shrimp. Its head is like a grasshopper’s. It is small, dark; it has legs. But when cooked, it is red, ruddy, hard, firm. It is edible; it can be toasted, it can be cooked. I toast, I cook, I sell acocilin.
\nIt is long and small, cylindrical, glistening. It has legs. The head is broad, wide. It is dark, swarthy. It is edible. It is an insect which transforms itself. It turns itself into a cincocopi; it becomes a cincocopi.
\nIt is small and round,
\nAxolotl: Amblystoma tigrinum L., Proteus mexicanus, Sideron humboldti (ibid., p. 323).↩
Acocili: Cambarellus montezumae (Santamaría, op. cit., p. 21).↩
Aneneztli: Larva de libelula (dragonfly)—Sahagún, op. cit., p. 321.↩
Axaxayacatl: defined in Santamaría, op. cit., as Ephidra californica Torrey or possibly Corixa sp.: see aguaucle (p. 42) and axayacate (p. 100).↩