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ca amo tle.

Headword: 
ca amo tle.
Principal English Translation: 

because (it is, I have, etc.) nothing

Alonso de Molina: 

Caamo. no, o no es assi. Aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 10r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

1) ca amo tle nicnopielia = because I have nothing
2) ca amo que ca çan pactica = for it is not perturbed
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.