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calitic.

Headword: 
calitic.
Principal English Translation: 

inside the house (see Karttunen); inside the building (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
callitic
IPAspelling: 
kɑlihtik
Frances Karttunen: 

CALIHTIC inside the house / hacia dentro de casa (M for caliticpa), dentro de casa (C) See CAL-LI, -IHTIC. CALIHTEC See CALIHTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See the short video from the IDIEZ group of contemporary native speakers, in Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl and published to YouTube, using the word calitic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVOcz3csjus.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

niman ocallaque in callitic = luego entraron al interior del edificio (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 140.

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Architecture, Construction, Buildings