whirlwind (see Karttunen)
MALACAEHĒCA-TL whirlwind / viento (Z) [(2)Zp. 120,191]. This occurs in a phrase meaning ‘rain squall with wind.’ See MALACA-TL, EHĒCA-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 134.