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inoc.

Headword: 
inoc.
Principal English Translation: 

while (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yn oc, in oc, ynoc
IPAspelling: 
inok
Alonso de Molina: 

Inoc. mientras que, o en tanto que. Aduer.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 39r.

Frances Karttunen: 

INOC while / mientras que, o en tanto que (M) [(2)Cf.98v,131r, (I)Rp.83]. See IN, OC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 106.

Andrés de Olmos: 

Ynoc, ynoquic. -- Estos significan entre tanto, o denotan un poco de tiempo, anteponense al verbo. Ex. : ynoc nitlacuiloa, nican timotlaliz, entre tanto que yo escriuo, assentar te has aqui; -- oc ximotlali, vel tla oc ximotlali, sientate un poco.
Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 184.

Attestations from sources in English: 

inoc = while, during
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 155.

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