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tlacualcan.

Headword: 
tlacualcan.
Principal English Translation: 

a good place (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacualcān
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑlkɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUALCĀN a good place / buen lugar (K)[(2)Zp.71,144]. Z has this only in negated form, AHMŌ TLACUALCĀN ‘hell.’ See CUALCĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 257.