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tetlatzontequililoyan.

Headword: 
tetlatzontequililoyan.
Principal English Translation: 

the place where judging, condemning, and legal sentencing would take place (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlatzontequililoyan
Alonso de Molina: 

tetlatzontequililoyan. el lugar donde juzgan, condenan y dan sentencia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 110r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tetlatzontequililoyan = en el juzgado (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 272–273.

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