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tlayohua.

Headword: 
tlayohua.
Principal English Translation: 

for it to be or grow dark; for night to fall

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlayua, tlayoa
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑyowɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlayua. (pret. otlayuac.) anochecer, o hazer escuro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 122v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAYOHUA to get dark / anochecer (K) See YOHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 305.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

Class 1: ōtlayohuac, tla- impersonal of yohua with same basic meaning.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

Attestations from sources in English: 

otlayohuac ypan sauado = it grew dark on Saturday
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 92–93.

yn otlayohuac huel onesque yn sisitlaltin = when it was dark the stars appeared clearly
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 92–93.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency