an unhappy place, or a place without opportunity for recreation (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
atle ye tepaccan
Alonso de Molina:
atle ie tepaccan. lugar desconsolatorio, o de ninguna recreacion. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.