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an elder (woman)
auh ixquich çihuatl yllamatzin in chocaque yhuan cenca quallanque = And the elderly women were crying and getting very angry.
quitlapalyhcuillotiaq. yn omoteneuhq huehuetque yllamatque = the aforesaid ancient Mexica Tenochca men and women wrote it in red [ink] (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
tecucol oca yna ça ycnoçivatli ça yllamato = Tecocol has a mother, just a widow, just a little old woman. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
yn acul hoca ymona ça yllamaçin ytoca deyacapa = Acol has a mother-in-law, just an old woman, named Teyacapan. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
ylamaci amo moquatequia ytoca tecuic aocmo vquiche ya matlacxivhtl y mic yyoquich quicavha ypiluha naviti = an old woman, not baptized, named Teicuh, no longer married. Ten years ago her husband died. He left four children. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
teixpan ŷ miq’ yn aço telpuchtzintli, omillamavi = in the people’s presence there died perhaps a youth who had become old-womanish (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Omillamavi: The term may be broken down to o-m(o)-ilama-hui, literally, he was old womaned or he old-womaned himself. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
ichpuchillama teixtlamachtia etc. = Spinster: she instructs people, etc. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
ye vel yllama ocoliuh. aocmo tlatequipanoa / aocmo mimati etc. aynyanj. vevezca, muyuma = Very old stooped woman: She no longer works, she no longer thinks clearly, etc.; she does not go out, she laughs, she shuffles along. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
in huehuentzin, illamatzin = the old males, the old females
in jtlan onoque, in qujpia piltzintli, in vevetque, in jlamatque = those in charge of the baby, those who watched over it, the old men, the old women (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
cujx ijxco, icpac titlachiazque in tivevetque, in tilamatque in cozcatl, in quetzalli = Perhaps we who are old men, we who are old women shall look into the face of the precious necklace, the precious feather [i.e. the newborn] (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
At the time of rioting in Mexico City over a rise in tributes that were assessed upon the indigenous inhabitants, "all the older women cried and became angry" (ixquich cihuatl yllamatzin in chocaque yhua[n] ce[n]ca qualla[n]que). These women broke through the walls. Some pounded their temples. (ca. 1582, México)
Auh ihuan ma ica tihuetzca, ma ica timotopeuh, ma ica ticamanalo i huehuetzin, in ilamatzin = Igualmente, jamás te rías, jamás te burles, jamás hagas burla de los venerables ancianos, de las venerables ancianas (centro de México, s. XVI)
auh in huehuentzin, in ilamatzin yhuan in ycnotlacatl, in nentlacatl = y al anciano, la anciana, y al necesitado, al desventurado