5 examples of tona in sentences
The derivation offered by Señor Chavero (Anales del Museo Nacional, Tom. ii, p.116), is merely fanciful; tonal is no doubt from tona, to shine, to warn; and I think cipactli is a softened form with the personal ending from chipauac, something beautiful or clear.
The full form is Tonatlan, from tona, "hacer sol," and the place ending tlan.
tona ioa o te Vahine tahura'i.
tonameyotoc, the root is the verb tona, to shine, to be warm; tonatiuh, the sun; tonameyotl, a ray of the sun, etc.
as if begging food of the earth, and were transformed into little creatures like dwarfs, called tona; and thus all the men were left without women.