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millón.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
millón.
Principal English Translation: 

"1576 nican ipan ixhuitl yn omochiuh [....] cocoliztli yc opa yn opeuhqui ypā [.....] yn omomiquili macehualtzintli ome milones .... (p. 808)" = 1576. In this year a [....] sickness broke out for the second time. It began in [....]; two million commoners died." (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 2, 1524–1674)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. 53, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

Orthographic Variants: 
milon
themes: 
Numbers, Math