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Atlacuihuayan.

Headword: 
Atlacuihuayan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place west of Mexico Tenochtitlan; Tacubaya
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 103.

IPAspelling: 
ɑːtɬɑkwiːwɑyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTLACUĪHUAYĀN place name Tacubaya [(2)Cf.56v]. See ĀTLACUI, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 13.

Attestations from sources in English: 

a place name, an indigenous community, possibly founded by Tezozomoctli of Azcapotzalco, which may have disappeared or been folded into another community
See http://oldweb.geog.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/Glyphs/Plate04/Atlacui... and http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsAmericas/CentralAztecAtlacuihuaya....

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