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-quiyahuac.

Headword: 
-quiyahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

at the entryway or exit; outside, with respect to a building (compound postposition) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
-quiyāhuac
IPAspelling: 
-kiyɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

-QUIYĀHUAC compound postposition outside (with respect to a building) / fuera de casa (M) C glosses the construction TĒCPANQUIYĀHUAC, literally 'outside the palace’, as la plaza. See QUIYĀHUA-TL, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 212.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
See also: 
quiyahuac.