Principal English Translation:
to go looking toward, i.e., to head toward
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), 221.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
n. pret. often with on-, directional prefix. pret. ōnitzti(y)ah. in ōmpa (or oncān I) tonitztihuih, in the future (where we are heading). itta, yauh as auxiliary. 221