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chayahui.

Headword: 
chayahui.
Principal English Translation: 

or something to spill, sprinkle down; for snow to fall (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chayāhui
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑyɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

CHAYĀHU(I) for something to spill, sprinkle down; for snow to fall / echarse así trigo, o caer nieve (M) See CHAYĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 46.

themes: 
Weather, Climate