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icel.

Headword: 
icel.
Principal English Translation: 

only, alone, by oneself; only that one (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ycel
Alonso de Molina: 

icel. solo aquel, o sola aquella.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 32r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

çā hue ycetzī ypiltzī dios. ca yehuatzī = the really only child of God
Fray Domingo de la Anunciación, 1565 (Doctrina Christiana, 13r.–13v.); translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix B, 2.

icel teotl yn dios toteº = single deity God our Lord (Huejotzingo, 1560)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 29, 184–185.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ynic çentetl ticmotlaçotiliz yn içel teotl, ica mochimoyolo = En el primero [mandamiento de la Ley de Dios] amarás á un solo Dios, con todo tu corazon
Antonio Vázquez Gastelu, Arte de lengua mexicana (Puebla de los Angeles, México: Imprenta Nueva de Diego Fernández de León, 1689), 33v.