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metzcualo.

Headword: 
metzcualo.
Principal English Translation: 

an eclipse of the moon (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mētzcualo, metzqualo
IPAspelling: 
meːtskwɑlo
Frances Karttunen: 

MĒTZCUALO eclipse of the moon / eclipse de luna (T) [(1)Tp. 142]. T also has CUALOMĒTZ-TLI with the same sense. If the second element is the nonactive form of the verb CUĀ ‘to eat something,’ the final vowel should be basically long, but it is not long in the synonymous construction CUALOMĒTZ-TLI. See MĒTZ-TLI, CUĀ, CUALŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 144.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena