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tlamatcan.

Headword: 
tlamatcan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place of happiness (?)

This word has been assumed to have existed, judging from the existence of its opposite (see the example from Sahagún, below).

Attestations from sources in English: 

in aijavixcan, in avellamatcan = it is a place of no joy, a place of no happiness (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 35, 193.

themes: 
Emotions