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altepehuacan.

Headword: 
altepehuacan.
Principal English Translation: 

in the various altepetl; in the countryside (see attestations)

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

āltepēhuahcān = locative noun. in the various altepetl. almost always in a collective sense. amounting to the countryside. āltepētl, -huah, -cān
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 210.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

çenoya altepehuacan = entre los pueblos (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 394–395.

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