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ahuachtelahui.

Headword: 
ahuachtelahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to begin to rain hard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ahhuachtelāhui
IPAspelling: 
ɑhwɑtʃtelɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

AHHUACHTELĀHU(I) pret: -TELĀUH to begin to rain hard / empieza a llover de veras (T)[(1)Tp.107]. See AHHUACH-TLI, TELĀHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 5.

themes: 
Weather, Climate