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chipahuacayotl.

Headword: 
chipahuacayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

purity, cleanliness (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chipāhuacāyōtl, chipauacayotl
IPAspelling: 
tʃipɑːwɑkɑːyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHIPĀHUACĀYŌ-TL purity, cleanliness / la limpieza en abstracto (C) [(2)Cf.49v]. See CHIPĀHUAC, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

chipauacayotl = belleza, garbo, de chipaua, brillar, purificarse
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxvii.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)