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chipactic.

Headword: 
chipactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something clean, pure (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tʃipɑktik
Frances Karttunen: 

CHIPACTIC something clean, pure / blanco, limpio, güero, huero, rubio (T) [(2)Tp.125]. Z has the variant CHIPACTZIN. M has chipaccaltic with the same sense. Both are virtually synonymous with CHIPĀHUAC. See CHIPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
See also: 
chipaccaltic.
chipahua.
chipahuac.