Principal English Translation:
shadow, shade (see Karttunen)
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
shadow, shade; first element may be related to ehēcatl; contains -yōtl.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.