mixteteica. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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.