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tepiloloyan.

Headword: 
tepiloloyan.
Principal English Translation: 

the place of hanging people; the gallows (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːpiloːloːyɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

tepiloloyan. lugar donde ahorcan.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 103r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒPILŌLŌYĀN place where people are hanged / lugar donde ahorcan (M) [(1)Cf.51r]. See PILOĀ, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 230.