tonalmitl.

Headword: 
tonalmitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a ray of sunshine

IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlmiːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tonalmitl. rayo del sol.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 149v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

omotlali çe cometa yuhqui tonalmitl oquistihcaya oncan ytlamelauhca yn tepexochotzin = a comet appeared; it would come out like a ray of sunshine in a straight line toward Mount Tepexochotzin.
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), 146–147.

themes: 
Celestial Phenomena