atlan

From this comes a series of words, such as atlan -- on the border of or amid the water -- from which we 'have the adjective Atlantic.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

14In his descriptions of indigenous healing methods in the seventeenth century, Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón describes how a female healer — known as atlan tlachixque, a "looker into water" — held a sick child over a pool of water in order to see its reflection.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008