ilhuica atl.

Headword: 
ilhuica atl.
Principal English Translation: 

the sea, the ocean

Orthographic Variants: 
ilhuicaatl
Alonso de Molina: 

ilhuica atl. mar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 37v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ilhuicaatl = "water which reaches the heavens"
Twitter posting, April 2016, from Caroline Dodds Pennock, citing Sahagún [Florentine Codex 11: 12: 247 (2nd ed)].

From ilhuicatl ‎(“sky”) +‎ ātl ‎(“water”), "because ocean water appears to meet the sky in the horizon."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ilhuicaatl

themes: 
Water