axolotl

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl āxōlōtl, from ātl (“water”) + xōlōtl (“slippery or wrinkled one, servant, slave”)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈak.səˌlɒ.təl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.səˌlɑ.təl/

An axolotl

axolotl (plural axolotls)

1. A critically endangered salamander found in the elevated lakes of Mexico, Ambystoma mexicanum.

• (amphibian): Mexican salamander, Mexican walking fish

axolotl

1. axolotl

• IPA^(key): /aːʃoːloːtɬ/

axolotl (plural axolomeh)

1. axolotl

• Mancilla Sepúlveda, Héctor. (2002) Lecciones de Nahuatl, Hirata Editorial, México DF. p. 158.

ātl (“water”) +‎ xōlōtl (“slippery or wrinkled one, servant, slave”)

• IPA^(key): /aːʃoːloːtɬ/
• IPA^(key): [aː.ˈʃóː.loːt͡ɬ]

āxōlōtl (animate, plural āxōlōmeh)

1. an edible larval salamander

   • 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

• → English: axolotl
• → Spanish: ajolote

• 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
• Kartunnen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 15
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 30

From Classical Nahuatl āxōlōtl.

• IPA^(key): /ak.sɔ.lɔtl/

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axolotl m (plural axolotls)

1. axolotl

• “axolotl” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).