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cehuiloni.

Headword: 
cehuiloni.
Principal English Translation: 

seat, chair (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cēhuilōni
IPAspelling: 
seːwiloːni
Frances Karttunen: 

CĒHUILŌNI seat, chair / silla, asiento (Z) [(3)Zp.15,116,202]. In all three attestations, Z fails to mark the vowel of the second syllable long. This would be correct if the noun is derived from CĒHU(I) rather than CĒHUIĀ. See CĒHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 28.