to sparkle, to twinkle (speaking of the fire) (see Molina, who has two entries with slightly different spellings)
Orthographic Variants:
tlemuyotl chitoni
Alonso de Molina:
tlemoyotl chitoni. (pret. tlemoyotl ochiton.) centellear el fuego. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
tlemuyotl chitoni. (pret. tlemuyotl ochiton.) centellear el fuego. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.