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tonalpolihuiyampa.

Headword: 
tonalpolihuiyampa.
Principal English Translation: 

west, the point of the sunset (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnalpolihuiyāmpa, tonalpolihuiyanpa
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlpoliwiyɑːmpɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALPOLIHUIYĀMPA west, point of sunset / occidente, poniente, oeste [(4)Zp.90,100,224]. See TŌNAL-LI, POLIHU(I), -YĀN, -PA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 246.

themes: 
Cardinal Directions, Cosmos