to grow hot, to run a fever; can also relate to the weather (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
totōniya
IPAspelling:
totoːniyɑ
Frances Karttunen:
TOTŌNIY(A) pret: TOTŌNIX – TOTŌNIYAC to grow hot, to run a fever / calentarse el agua o otra cosa (M), tener ardor o calentura (M) [(3)Cf.32r,(3)Tp.241,(2)Zp.23,216]. This contrasts with transitive TOTŌNIĀ. T has the variant form TOTÓNEYA. With the prefix TLA-Z glosses this as ‘to be hot (weather)’. See TŌNA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 248.