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antes.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
antes.
Principal English Translation: 

before

Attestations from sources in English: 

Cox cualli tlen yoquitlalihqueh porque n antez amo tlen oyiya de n non pero n axan ye cah, a ver quen tcontta n tehhuatzin, ¿cox non cualli o amo? (2013-SMX). =Is [this cellphone] they invented a good thing? Because there wasn’t anything of that in the past. But now there is, so what do you think about it? Is that good or not? [oral account (2013-SMX, 2014-P, 2015-SAH); time range: 2013–2015]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 81.

Pero antes quena eliyaya huan cequin poz canahya nocca quichihuah (2014-P). =[The ceremony] was indeed performed in the past and some peope still do it in some places. [oral account (2013-SMX, 2014-P, 2015-SAH); time range: 2013–2015]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 81.