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cehuallo.
Headword:
cehuallo.
Principal English Translation:
something that has a shadow, or something shaded or in the shade (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
ceuallo, ceoallo
Attestations from sources in English:
in totechiuhcaoan, in vel vevetque, in vel ilamatque muchiuhtiuj: in vel ceoallotiuj, in vel malacaiotivi, in vevei puchotl, avevetl muchiuhtivi yn ointlannecalaqujloc: auh in amo ointlan cahaqujco in jmma, in jmjcxi: in oqujҫoҫoaco in jmahaz, in jncujtlapiltzin = These were our forefathers who lived as the really old men, the really old women, who went casting a shadow, who went providing shade, who went forming the great silk cotton trees, the cypresses for those who became their subjects. And they were the ones who went not hiding their hands, their feet; rather, those who went extending their wings, their tail feathers (central Mexico, sixteenth century)