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atitlan.

Headword: 
atitlan.
Principal English Translation: 

in the water, or next to it (see Molina); at the coast; also a Nahua place name for a lake location in Guatemala, Atitlan

Alonso de Molina: 

atitlan. enel agua, o junto al agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

atitlan momiquilico = He got to the coast and died.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 82–83.

themes: 
Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine
Names (places)
Water
See also: 
ātitlan.