a viper or venomous snake; or a serpent who lives in a marsh (see chiyahuitl) Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, who cites the Florentine Codex, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chiyahuitl
to weep, cry; for animals to make various sounds (e.g. to roar, to bray, or for birds to sing) (see Molina and Lockhart); and for comments on this as an approved behavior, see attestations
to cry.
A. ni. Una persona llora y le bajan las lagrimas. “Juan llora porque le duele su estomago”.
B. llorar.
one who cries; a weeper (said of the person who delivers his or her mind and heart to the deity)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 44.
# se cae muchas cosas cada rato en el agua. “allá en el arroyo esta un árbol de papel y su fruto cuando se tira cae en el agua, después el agua se pone amarillo”.