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pilchan.

Headword: 
pilchan.
Principal English Translation: 

princely house

IPAspelling: 
piltʃɑːn
Attestations from sources in English: 

Motecuçoma quicauh in vei tecpan vmpa ia in ipilchan = Moteucçoma left the great palace and went to his personal home.
(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 90.