Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

atle nonquiza.

Headword: 
atle nonquiza.
Principal English Translation: 

hard work gets one nowhere, one's efforts come to nothing (see Molina, who gives this example in the first person singular)

Orthographic Variants: 
atle nonquiça
Alonso de Molina: 

atle nonquiza (pret. atle ononquiz.) no me aprouechar mis diligencias.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns