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Tepoztlan.

Headword: 
Tepoztlan.
Principal English Translation: 

a prominent altepetl in what is now the state of Morelos, Mexico, "place of copper"

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 234.

IPAspelling: 
tepostɬɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TEPOZTLĀN place name Tepoztlan [(1)Cf.56v]. See TEPOZ-TLI, -TLĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 231.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tepoztli, tlān. 234

themes: 
Metals, Mining
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