Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

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

in atl in tepetl.

Headword: 
in atl in tepetl.
Principal English Translation: 

water-hill/mountain, a paired phrase that is the equivalent of altepetl (see altepetl)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Un difrasismo, agua-cerro, para decir "ciudad". (p. 86)
Katarzyna Mikulska, "Te hago bandera... Signos de banderas y sus significados en la expresión gráfica nahua", en Los códices mesoamericanos: registros de religión, política y sociedad, Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio y Juan José Batalla Rosado, coordinadores (Zinacantepec: El Colegio Mexiquense, 2016), 85–133.