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camanalhuia.
Headword:
camanalhuia.
Principal English Translation:
to soften; to cajole; to seduce (see attestations from Sahagún)
Orthographic Variants:
camanalhuja
Attestations from sources in English:
auh in iehoantin ichpopuchti, cenca vel pialoia, ynjc aiac qujmjxeleuiz, ynjc aiac qujncamanalhuiz. = And these girls [who danced the popcorn dance in the month of Toxcatl] were very well guarded, that none might covet them, nor ravish them. Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 72.