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tonalcehui.

Headword: 
tonalcehui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be overcast, cloudy so that the sun does not shine (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnalcēhui
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlseːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALCĒHU(I) to be overcast, cloudy so that the sun does not shine / ya no hace sol (T) [(1)Tp.242]. See TŌNAL-LI, CĒHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena
Weather, Climate