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atenco.

Headword: 
atenco.
Principal English Translation: 

coast, at the water's edge, at the edge of the sea (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
ɑːteːnko
Attestations from sources in English: 

ca iquac in vmpa ia atenco = for at that time he went to the coast(Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 126.

themes: 
Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine
Water