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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
See also: 
piloa.
-yan.