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paniyan.

Headword: 
paniyan.
Principal English Translation: 

place on top, at the summit (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
paniyān
IPAspelling: 
pɑniyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

PANIYĀN place on top, at the summit / encima de él (Z) [(1)Bf.13r,(2)Zp.50,181]. See PANI, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 187.