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apenas.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
apenas.
Principal English Translation: 

hardly, just, only

Attestations from sources in English: 

techcontaroah tocolihuan catli ni Otlaxhuayo quemman paya apenaz pan 1940 chicome calli tipeuhqueh (2016-X2). =Our ancestors tell us that in this [village] Otlaxhuayo in 1940 we started with only seven houses. [oral account (2010-Tep, 2012-Tep, 2015-X, 2016- X2); time range: 2010–2016]
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), 83.

nimantzin apenaz quipiya ome xihuitl tlen quimmacaqueh sello itocax ‘Certificación orgánica’ (2015-X). =It has hardly been two years now since they gave them the stamp called ‘Organic certificate’. [oral account (2010-Tep, 2012-Tep, 2015-X, 2016- X2); time range: 2010–2016]
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), 83.