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tlapayahuitl.

Headword: 
tlapayahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a heavy rain (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlapayahuitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

peuhqui tlapayahuitl ytlacotian agosto huel miec huehuezque caltin yhuan huel miec matoctin yhuan quicauh Çahuatl anrierostin aocmon huel panohuaya = Empezó la lluvia intensa a mediados de agosto. Se cayeron muchas casas y muchas se anegaron. Los arrieros dejaron el río Zahuatl porque no lo podían cruzar. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692) Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 284–285.

themes: 
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