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callan.

Headword: 
callan.
Principal English Translation: 

outside the house (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

callan. fuera de casa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tocallan = a term used in the Codex Osuna (f. 7v) to describe a parcel of land with a house on it and a Nahua family; a Spaniard demarcates the plot by pounding stakes into each of the four corners
Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/?sp=17&st=image&r=

Similar to the callan of the Codex Osuna is the calmilli that is shown in the Ramo de Tierras calmilli, v. 1735, exp. 2, f. 108, of the National Archive.
See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present). https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/calmilli-t17352108

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Land Tenure
See also: 
calli.
-tlan.