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mixteteica.

Headword: 
mixteteica.
Principal English Translation: 

to drizzle (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
miʃteteikɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MIXTETEICA to drizzle / llovizna (Z) [(2)Zp. 79, 167]. The literal sense of this is for a cloud to get ground up, chewed up. See MIX-TLI, TETEICA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 149.