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altepemanqueh.
Headword:
altepemanqueh.
Principal English Translation:
founders of the altepetl (a plural agentive noun); the verb mana, to found or establish is part of the construction
Orthographic Variants:
altepemanque
Attestations from sources in English:
pipilti to manohuel to xalpatol to miquel totoquiahuatzitzin altepemanque huytzquilocaneca = The nobles, don Manuel, don Salvador, and don Miguel Totoquiahuatzin, inhabitants of Huitzquilocan [Huixquilucan today] founded the altepetl [or, are founders of the altepetl]. (11r.); totecuyohuan altepemanque = our lords, the altepetl founders (but could also mean our lords founded the altepetl -- an "o" at the start would make this latter translation a little more certain, and none is there; but it would not be required) (11v.) (Mexico, late seventeenth-century, a Techialoyan manuscript from San Cristóbal Texcalucan and Magdalena Chichicaspa)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
altepemanque pipilti = los nobles que extendieron (establecieron) el pueblo