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(a loanword from Spanish)
Moses, the name of a biblical figure, taken by indigenous men (see attestations)
Nican ancate in annotlamachtilhuan in annoapostolhuā, nican otitocentlalique yn techan ynic ticchihuazque yn pasqua ynic tiquazque yn ichcaconetl yn iuh otlanahuatitehuac yn Moysen = Here you are, you who are My disciples, who are My apostles,. Here we have assembled in another's home in order to celebrate the Passover, when we are to eat the lamb, as Moses commanded before he died. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
(attested in central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)