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chialoni.

Headword: 
chialoni.
Principal English Translation: 

something or someone worth waiting for (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

chialoni. digno de ser esperado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

chialoni (noun) = that which is awaited or expected Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 152.