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.