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cemmanian.

Headword: 
cemmanian.
Principal English Translation: 

once and for all; for the last time; always, perpetually, eternally

Orthographic Variants: 
cemman yan, cemmanyan, cenmanya, cemania, cenmania, cemmania, cemanian, cenmanyan, cemman ya, cemmanyan, cenmajan, cenmayan, cenmaian
Alonso de Molina: 

Cemman yan. de todo entodo, o vltimadamente. Aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 16r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ic cenmajan, monemjlizcuepa: = Thus in the end he changed to a good life. (central Mexico, sixteenthe century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 11.

Also seen as ye ic cenmanian.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency