atlan tepehua.

Headword:

atlan tepehua.

Principal English Translation:

to unload or to lighten a ship (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

atlan tepeua

Alonso de Molina:

Atlan tepeua. nitla. (Preterito. onitla atlan tepeuh.) alijar nauio.
Atlan tlaça. (Preterito. oitlaatlantlaz.) nitla. idem.
Atlantoxaua. (Preterito. onitla atlantoxauh.) nitla. idem.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

nec atla onnetepevalo = then everyone scattered into the water
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 234.

themes:

Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine

Transportation, Travel