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calpan.

Headword: 
calpan.
Principal English Translation: 

in, at, or around the house(s), a locative

Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart, ca. the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Discussions of a pilli (child) in association with the term calpan (of the house) refers to a child of questionable parentage.
See the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl for this and several other attestions of the use of calpan: https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/calpan. (SW)