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cemicacayolihuayan.

Headword: 
cemicacayolihuayan.
Principal English Translation: 

place of eternal life (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cemihcacāyōlīhuayān
IPAspelling: 
semihkɑkɑːyoːliːwɑyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

CEMIHCACĀYŌLĪHUAYĀN place of eternal life / lugar donde se vive eterna- /K029/ mente (C) [(1)Cf.102r]. In the single attestation the medial vowel of the sequence YŌLĪHUA is not marked long, but it should be by general rule. See CEMIHCAC, YŌL(I), -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 29.