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tonalcalaquiyampa.

Headword: 
tonalcalaquiyampa.
Principal English Translation: 

west, the point where the sun sets (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnalcalaquiyāmpa, tonalcalquiyanpa
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlkɑlɑkiyɑːmpɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALCALAQUIYĀMPA west, point where the sun sets / oeste, occidente, poniente (Z) [(3)Zp.90,100, 224]. See TŌNALCALAQUIYĀN, -PA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

themes: 
Cardinal Directions, Cosmos
Celestial Phenomena