a whirlwind, tornado (see Molina); dustdevil (see Karttunen); also, attested as a pesonal name (male)
Auh no yquac hecamalacotl moquetz ynicpac tlaltepehualli yn iglesia mayor caltitlan yuhqui xixitomoni yhuan yuhqui matlequiquiztli ye huehuetzi ynic conittaqueue tlaca yuhqui cacamachallohua tlalli auh yn iquac ye hualtemo hecamalacotl niman quitoque in castilteca ca ye quiça yn Motecuhçoma. (ADJB, f. 56v) = A whirlwind rose from the mound of dirt next to the main church. There was a flash of lightning and a sound like great gunfire. The people saw the jaws of the earth opening. As the wind died down, the Castilians were saying that Moteuczoma was emerging.
A person of the Nahua nobility named Huiznahuatl Ecamalacotl was sentenced for adultery and executed by stoning in front of a large crowd, according to the Florentine Codex.
At least two names in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco are Ecamalacotl. See one here: https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/ecamalacotl-mh497r In this one and another, the ecamalcotl seems to be an apparatus that spins in the wind.
mjn hecamalacotl = Martín Ecamalacotl; elsewhere spelled: mjn hecamalacatl = Martín Ecamalcatl (It is not clear if this is the same name, given the final a and the name glyph having a spindle in the midst of wind.) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)