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chilia.

Headword: 
chilia.
Principal English Translation: 

gives this as the applicative form (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīliā
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪLIĀ T gives this as the applicative form of CHIY(A) . It is noteworthy that the vowel of the first syllable is long in the absence of YA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 51.