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mixtemi.

Headword: 
mixtemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to be cloudy, overcast (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
miʃteːmi
Alonso de Molina: 

mixtemi. hazer ñublado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MIXTĒM(I) to be cloudy / está nublado [(4)Zp. 88,89,210]. Z treats this as a transitive verb and prefixes it with TLA-. See MIX-TLI, TĒM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 149.

themes: 
Weather, Climate