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atlepiyaliztli.

Headword: 
atlepiyaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the lack of everything, literally the having of nothing, which Karttunen refers to as want or need (as nouns)

Orthographic Variants: 
ahtlehpiyaliztli
IPAspelling: 
ɑhtlehpiyɑlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

AHTlEHPIYALIZ-TLI want, need / carestía, necesidad (R)[(1)Rp.63]. R does not indicate the glottal stop of the second syllable. See AHTLE(H), PIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 7.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites