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cepayahui.

Headword: 
cepayahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to snow (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cepayaui
IPAspelling: 
sepɑjɑwi
Alonso de Molina: 

cepayaui. (pret. ocepayauh.) neuar [nevar]
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"1637 calli Xihuitl ipan in ocepayauh huel chicahuac (p. 730)" = "1637 House year. In this year it snowed very hard." (Anales de Tlaxcala, no. 2, 1519–1692)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, pp. 78–79, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

cepayahui = to snow (central Mexico, 1613)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 234–235.

ypan nahui ora peuhqui quiyahuitli Lones cemilhuitli cepayauh = at 4 o’clock it began to rain. On Monday it snowed all day.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 178–179.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nican ipan xihuitl ocèpayauh ipan màtlactli tonali Enero. Za nó iquac opeuhqui Sarampio miec ic omomiquilì quê = En este año cayó nevada, a diez de Enero. En el mismo año comenzó el sarampión, de que murieron muchos (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 83.

themes: 
Weather, Climate