to drizzle, to rain lightly (see Karttunen and Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
auachquiyaui
IPAspelling:
ɑhwɑtʃkiyɑwi
Alonso de Molina:
auachquiyaui. (pret. oauachquiauh.) llouiznar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
AHHUACHQUIYAHU(I) to rain lightly / lloviznar (M)[(2)Tp.107] See AHHUACH-TLI, QUIYAHU(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 5.