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macuilcan.

Headword: 
macuilcan.
Principal English Translation: 

in five places (see Molina, who surely intended partes in lieu of pares)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːkwiːlkɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

macuilcan. en cinco lugares, o pares [sic].
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MĀCUĪLCĀN in five places or parts / en cinco lugares o partes (M) [(1)Cf. 91r]. See MĀCUĪL-LI, -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 130.

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