Don Bartholome lupez huacaxochitzin tlacochcalcatzintli quahuecatitlan chane yehuatl cacic yn vandera yn ihquac acico españolesme yancuican yn oncan yc moyaochiuhque tlatilolco. = Bartolomé López Huacaxochitzin tlacochcalcatzintli in Quahuecatitlan, [where he was a] resident. He seized the flag when the Spaniards first came, when they were made war upon in Tlatelolco. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 98–99.
ce español, tepoztlahuiztica cotatica moyaochichiuhtia motenehua armado, yc yah. quihuicac quitquitia yn vamderra moteneuh Quiyon çan huel tetepitzin ytech icuiliuhtia yn iarmastzin Rey. yehuatl yn castillo yhuan leon. = a Spaniard, outfitted for war with a metal device, a coat of mail, called a man in armor; as he went he took and carried a banner called an ensign, very small, on which was painted the king's coat of arms, a castle and a lion, his royal device. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 208–209.
ome vamderra ahnoço esdantarde real ytech icuiliuhtia yn itlahtocatlahuiztzin yn iarmastzin Rey ynin ca tafetan tliltic netloc mantia yyomexti = Two banners or royal standards went following them, on which were painted the royal insignia, the arms of the king; they were of black taffeta; the two of them went side by side. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 208–209.
Rey ypantera macoc = he was given the banner of the kind [to parade about with].
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 174–175.
in axioac in vandera = where the banner was created
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 216.
nochi siudatlaca niman muchi yn quexquich banderas comaCoque = Then all the city people grew agitated. All the banners were raised.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 124–125.
muchi yn quexquich banderas omacoque (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.
Ocacoque yancuican bandera yn mulatoz (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.
yanCuican maCoc panteras = For the first time the banner [of the king] was given to him [for ceremonial parading]
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 172–173.
Ie vncan in, in axioac in vandera, vncan anoc: iehoantin caciq in Tlatilulca: vncan in macic, in ie axcan sanct Martin moteneoa. = “This was where the banner was captured; that is where it was taken. It was the Tlatelolca who captured it, at the place now called San Martín”(Sahagún 1950–82, XII: 103). [annals (AHT, AJB, AP, AT, ZM), cultural encyclopedia (FC 12); time range: 1564–1670]
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), 96.