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caltenco.

Headword: 
caltenco.
Principal English Translation: 

outdoors; in the doorway of the house or building; at the edge of the house or building; at the doorway of the house or building; at the side of the building (see Karttunen and attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
calteco
IPAspelling: 
kɑlteːnko
Frances Karttunen: 

CALTĒNCO outdoors /campo (T) [(1)Tp.113]. See CALTĒN-TLI, -C(O).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 22.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlanamacoz momoztla oncan audia quichivazque yn teilpiloyan caltenco = they will hold an audience there daily at the side of the jailhouse (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 120–121.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

animan ya nouian nenemi yn tlatlatetemoua yn tecalltenco yn tecacalltitlan…. = Luego ya andan por todos lados, andan buscando por los patios, entre las casas. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 154, 156.

nochi yca caualio tlayahualuque ocan peuhqui yacuican tzatzohuac cauildo calteco = todos desfilaron a caballo. Se hizo el primer pregón, allá empezó a las puertas del cabildo (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 362–363.

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