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tetzauhquiyahuitl.

Headword: 
tetzauhquiyahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

heavy rainstorm, deluge (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetzāuhquiyahuitl
IPAspelling: 
tetsɑːwkiyɑwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TETZĀUHQUIYAHU(I)-TL heavy rainstorm, deluge / tempestad, diluvio (Z) [(3)Zp.46,120,222]. Z also has a variant form that has lost the final UH of the first element. See TETZĀHU(I), QUIYAHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 237.