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tlachipauhcan.

Headword: 
tlachipauhcan.
Principal English Translation: 

a clearing, a cleared ground, a clean place (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlachipāuhcān
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtʃipɑːwkɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACHIPĀUHCĀN clearing, cleared ground, clean place / desmonte, lugar limpio (Z) [(3)Zp.43,77,206]. See CHIPĀHU(A), -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 255.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)