⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

-motecayan.

Headword: 
-motecayan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place where something spreads itself out on a surface (a necessarily possessed form; see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-motēcayān
IPAspelling: 
-moteːkɑyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-MOTĒCAYĀN necessarily possessed form place where something spreads itself out on a surface / lugar donde el aguacero descarga y cae (C referring in context to rain) [1)Cf.5Ov]. R glosses this as ‘place where rain clouds form,’ which is the gloss C provides for -MOPILOĀYĀN. See TĒCA, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 153.