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chipahualiztli.

Headword: 
chipahualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

cleanliness, beauty; or, clarity of water

Orthographic Variants: 
chipaualiztli
IPAspelling: 
tʃipɑːwɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

chipaualiztli. limpieza, hermosura y lindeza, o claridad de agua no turbia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHIPĀHUALIZ-TLI cleanliness, purity, clarity / limpieza, hermosura, y lindeza, o claridad de agua no turbia (M) [(2)Zp.15,206]. See CHIPĀHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Water