tecihui.

Headword: 
tecihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to hail, for hail to fall (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
teciui
IPAspelling: 
tesiwi
Alonso de Molina: 

teciui. (pret. oteciuh.) granizar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TECIHU(I) to hail / granizar (M) [(1)Tp.226].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tecihui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

4 Tecpatl 1547 Ypan teciuh iztac tepetl (p. 717)" = "4 Flint-knife (year) 1547. In this year it hailed on the white mountain" (Anales de Tlaxcala, no. 1, 1453–1603)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 4, p. 14, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

"1548 4 Tecpatl inpan onteciviloc in oncan ipan iztac tepetl (p. 984)" = "1548 4 Flint-knife (year). In this year it hailed there on the white mountain." (Anales de Diego García, 1502–1601)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 4, p. 14, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

IDIEZ morfema: 
tecihui.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
root of TECEHUITL. to hail.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
TECIHUITL iyollo. Huetzi tecihuitl [Mc. 92v].
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.
themes: 
Weather, Climate