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icualoca in tonatiuh.

Headword: 
icualoca in tonatiuh.
Principal English Translation: 

solar eclipse (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
iqualoca intonatiuh, iqualoca in tonatiuh
Alonso de Molina: 

iqualoca intonatiuh. eclipsi del sol.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 42r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Donatiuh Cualoc huelayehuac [sic] = There was a solar eclipse. It got very dark
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 176–177.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena
Time, Calendar, Frequency