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tecuiltonocan.

Headword: 
tecuiltonocan.
Principal English Translation: 

place of recreation, enjoyment, pleasure (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēcuiltōnohcān
IPAspelling: 
teːkwiltoːnohkɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCUILTŌNOHCĀN place of recreation, enjoyment, pleasure / luga de recreación y de alegría (C) [(2)Cf.18v,51v]. See TĒCUILTŌNOH, -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 218.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tecuiltonocan = lugar de recreo
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvii.

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