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cehualli.

Headword: 
cehualli.
Principal English Translation: 

the shade cast by something

Orthographic Variants: 
ceualli
IPAspelling: 
seːwɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

ceualli. sombra de alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CĒHUAL-LI shadow of something / sombra de alguna cosa (M) See CĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 28.