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atla.

Headword: 
atla.
Principal English Translation: 

place of abundant water (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ātlah
IPAspelling: 
ɑːtɬɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTLAH place of abundant water / abundancia de la cosa significada (agua) (C)[(3)Cf.57r127r]. See Ā-TL, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 13.

Attestations from sources in English: 

çe tlali. onpan matica huey. atla = a piece of land at the large body of water
the large body of water might be a lake or a river or stream; the Spanish translation has en el rio grande. in the big river.
(San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1691)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 129.

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