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calan.

Headword: 
calan.
Principal English Translation: 

outside (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
calān
IPAspelling: 
kɑlɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

CALĀN outside / afuera (Z) [(6)Zp.6,112,143,185]. In two of six attestations Z marks the vowel of the first syllable long. This is possibly derived from CAL-LI and –TLĀN with degemination of medial LL resulting from LTL assimilation. See CALLĀMPA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.