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acame.

Headword: 
acame.
Principal English Translation: 

some people

Alonso de Molina: 

acame. algunos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 1v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh yntla acame oqujnnamjcque, niman vncan qujntlacujcujlia = and if they came upon any men, they despoiled them of their possessions
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 74.