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atic.

Headword: 
atic.
Principal English Translation: 

liquid; something melted, runny; something rare; something as transparent as glass

IPAspelling: 
ɑːtik
Alonso de Molina: 

atic. cosa derretida, o cosa rala, o cosa trasparente como cristal. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTIC something melted, smelted / cosa derretida, cosa rala, o cosa trasparente como cristal, etc. (M)[(1)Tp.171,(1)Zp.142]. See ĀTIY(A), Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 13.

Attestations from sources in English: 

atic = liquid (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 132.

IDIEZ morfema: 
ātic.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
watery.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Tlamantli tlen quipanohuilihqueh atl, zampampa axnelatoltic. “Ne tixtli nelatic, yeca axhueli motehteca; zan tlatzquia pan comalli.”
IDIEZ def. español: 
#Una cosa que tiene mucha agua. “Esa masa está muy aguada, por eso no se puede hechar”.
IDIEZ morfología: 
ātiya, cā.
IDIEZ gramática: 
quen.