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Yecapixtlan.

Headword: 
Yecapixtlan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place name, also spelled Yecapixtla (see Karttunen), Yacapitlan and Yacaapichtlan (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Yecapixtlān, Yacapitlan, Yacapichtlan, Acapistla
IPAspelling: 
yekɑpiʃtɬɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

YECAPIXTLĀN place name Yecapixtla [(1)Tp.114]. The name of this town is spelled in many different ways in Nahuatl and Spanish sources. It is possibly derived from YAC(A)-TL ‘nose, point, ridge’ and PIY(A) ‘to have,’ but it is not certain. Such a derivation would be consistent with T’s consistent YE for YA but in the single attestation T drops the first syllable altogether.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 336.

Attestations from sources in English: 

niz cate ytech pohui pablo de sanctoual yacapitlan chināpan; pablo de sanctoval (sixteenth-century Yecapixtla, Morelos)
Rosa María Hernández de Zamora, "El Programa Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO: México en la Memoria del Mundo," Legajos: Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación 10 (oct.–dic. 2011), 17–22. See the sample page from the Códice del Marquesado del Valle, p. 21; paleography by Stephanie Wood. Lower down, the town name is given as yacapichtlan.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

acapistla (1564, Morelos)
Códice del Marquesado del Valle, 14r., Hospital de Jesús vol. 487, leg. 276. Ver su publicación en Legajos: Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación 10 (oct.-dic. 2011).

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