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teyacapantli.

Headword: 
teyacapantli.
Principal English Translation: 

someone firstborn (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēyacapantli
IPAspelling: 
teːyɑkɑpɑntɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒYACAPAN-TLI someone firstborn / primero engendrado o nacido, o primero nacida y engendrada, primogénito o primogénita (M) [(2)Tp.134,227]. M has the variant forms tiacapan and tiyacapan, where TĒ- has shortened and changed vowel quality, as in TIĀCHCĀUH. T has E for A in the second syllable. See TĒ-, YACAPAN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 239.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent