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tonatiuh ixco.

Headword: 
tonatiuh ixco.
Principal English Translation: 

the East, the eastern part (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tonatiuh ixco. leuante, parte oriental.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 149v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tonatiuh ixco pochotli yn minticac ytocayocan tequacuilco = Hacia el oriente: está flechado el pocho donde se llama Tequacuilco…. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 158, 157.

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