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temachtiloyan.

Headword: 
temachtiloyan.
Principal English Translation: 

place where people are instructed, school (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēmachtīlōyān
IPAspelling: 
teːmɑtʃtiːloːyɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

temachtiloyan. pulpito, cathedra, olugar donde enseñan a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒMACHTĪLŌYĀN place where people are instructed, school / púlpito, cátedra, o lugar donde enseñan a otros (M) [(2)Cf.82r,129r]. Neither attestation marks the vowel of the third syllable long, but it is marked long elsewhere in attestations of the nonactive form of MACHTIĀ. See TĒMACHTIĀ, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 221.

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