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chalchiuhcalli.

Headword: 
chalchiuhcalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a house of precious green stone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chālchiuhcalli
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːltʃiwkɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀLCHIUHCAL-LI house of precious green stone / casa de esmeralda (C) [(1)Cf.75v]. See CHĀLCHIHU(I)-TL, CAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Turquoise, Greenstone/Jade