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-chachan.

Headword: 
-chachan.
Principal English Translation: 

each to his own home (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-chahchān
IPAspelling: 
-tʃɑhtʃɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

-CHAHCHĀN C gives this possessed reduplicated form of CHĀN-TLI ‘home’ as an example of the distributive, ‘each to his own home.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 44.