atl imopiloayan.

Headword:

atl imopiloayan.

Principal English Translation:

a current of water (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina:

atl imopiloayan. corriente de agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

mopiloa = descends + possessive (i-) + locative (-yan)
Compare: in tōnatiuh mopiloa, the sun descends in the sky.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 230.

themes:

Water