ilhuicaatl

Noun

 * 1) ocean

Etymology
Equivalent to, because ocean water appears to meet the sky in the horizon.

Noun

 * 1) sea, ocean
 * 2) * 16c, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, vol. 3. f. 223r. col. 1.
 * […] llamase tan bien ylhuicaatl / que quiere dezir agua, que se iunto / conel cielo. Porque los antiguos habi / tadores deſta tierra, pensauan que / elcielo se iunta conel agua enlamar, como ſi fuese una casa, queel agua / ſon las paredes : yel cielo eſta sobre / las. Y poreſto llaman alamar ylhui / caatl, como si dixesen, agua que se / iunta con el cielo […]
 * […] it [the sea] is also called ylhuicaatl, which means "water that joined with the sky", because the ancient inhabitants of this land thought that the sky joined the water in the sea, as if it were a house, where the water is the walls and the sky is above them, and because of this they call the sea ylhuicaatl, as if saying "water that joins with the sky" […]

Synonyms

 * huey ātl

Derived terms

 * ilhuicaātēntli