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mictlancalli.

Headword: 
mictlancalli.
Principal English Translation: 

the house of the dead (see Karttunen); or, hell, purgatory

Orthographic Variants: 
mictlāncalli
IPAspelling: 
miktɬɑːnkɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

MICTLĀNCAL-LI the house of the dead / infierno, purgatorio (T) [(1)Tp. 141]. See MICTLĀN-TLI, CAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.