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mictlantli.

Headword: 
mictlantli.
Principal English Translation: 

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

Orthographic Variants: 
mictlāntli
IPAspelling: 
miktɬɑːntɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

MICTLĀN-TLI the realm of the dead / inferno o en el infierno o al infierno (M), infierno, purgatorio (T) This is consistently attested across sources with a long vowel in the second syllable. M gives it both with and without the absolutive suffix. It is more common without and does not take the suffix when used as a locative expression. See MIQU(I), -TLĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.