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chinancalli.

Headword: 
chinancalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a house or enclosure built of cane or cornstalks (see Karttunen); or, encircled with a fence (see Molina); or, house lots (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
chinancali
IPAspelling: 
tʃinɑːnkɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

chinancalli. cercado de seto.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHINĀNCAL-LI house or enclosure built of cane or cornstalks / casa de cañuela de maiz (T) [(1)Tp.125]. See CHINĀM(I)-TL, CAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 52.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xivitl expa in quitocaz in chinancali = en el año tres veces vigilará que los solares (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 256–257.

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Architecture, Construction, Buildings