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cencaltin.

Headword: 
cencaltin.
Principal English Translation: 

a family (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

cencaltin. vna familia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 17r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

In effect, this can be a family, but calli is the root, leading to a reading as the people of the house; or, the household. (SW)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Nahuintin tlaca acticate in cencaltin. = Son cuatro personas las que están dentro de esta familia. (ca. 1540, Cuernavaca)
Ismael Díaz Cadena, "Libro de tributos del Marquesado del Valle. Texto en español y náhuatl," Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Cuadernos de la Biblioteca, Serie Investigación no. 5, pp. 7, 50.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent