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at the entryway or exit; outside the house (see Molina and attestations)

a rainstorm with wind (See Karttunen)

entrance (See Karttunen)

to rain

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 232.

an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico

(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.

a stone that falls from the sky when there is thunder and lightning, penetrating the ground and growing larger every year (literally: rain-divine-excrement, i.e., rain-gold; but it may be a meteorite; SW)

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 178r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/178r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 24 November 2025.