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tonayan.

Headword: 
tonayan.
Principal English Translation: 

the heat of the day, daytime ( ee Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnayān
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNAYĀN the heat of the day, daytime / de día (Z) [(2)Zp.45,224]. M has this in tonayampa ehecatl and tonayan vitz ehecatl ‘warm wind from the east or south’. See TŌNA, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

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