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-motecayan.

Headword: 
-motecayan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place where something spreads itself out on a surface (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-motēcayān
IPAspelling: 
-moteːkɑyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-MOTĒCAYĀN necessarily possessed form place where something spreads itself out on a surface / lugar donde el aguacero descarga y cae (C referring in context to rain) [1)Cf.5Ov]. R glosses this as ‘place where rain clouds form,’ which is the gloss C provides for -MOPILOĀYĀN. See TĒCA, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.