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tetlechipahualoyan.

Headword: 
tetlechipahualoyan.
Principal English Translation: 

purgatory, place of purification by fire (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tētlechipāhualōyān
IPAspelling: 
teːtɬetʃipɑːwɑloːyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTLECHIPĀHUALŌYĀN purgatory, place of purification by fire / purgatorio (C) [(1)Cf.93v]. See TLE-TL, CHIPĀHU(A), -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 236.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Religion (Christian)