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tepapaquiltican.

Headword: 
tepapaquiltican.
Principal English Translation: 

a place of pleasure and enjoyment (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːpɑhpɑːkiltihkɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

tepapaquiltican. lugar deleytoso, y plazentero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒPAHPĀQUILTIHCĀN place of pleasure, enjoyment / lugar deleitoso y placentero (M), lugar donde alegra (C) [(1)Cf.51r]. See PAHPĀQUILTIĀ, -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 228.

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