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tonalcalaquiyan.

Headword: 
tonalcalaquiyan.
Principal English Translation: 

sunset (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnalcalaquiyān
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlkɑlɑkiyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALCALAQUIYĀN sunset / la caída del sol (Z) [(5)Zp.23,90,100,224]. See TŌNAL-LI, CALAQU(I), -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena
Time, Calendar, Frequency
See also: 
teotlaquilli.
teotlac.
tonalli.
calaqui tonatiuh.