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necoc ixquich.

Headword: 
necoc ixquich.
Principal English Translation: 

something square, squared off, the same on all sides (see Molina and attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

necoc yxquich. quadrada cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 65r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

necoc campa = on both sides
Byron McAfee translation, plate 10, Zempoala Techialoyan Codex, The Techialoyan Codices: Codex E, Tlalocan 2:2 (1946), 144.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nicnomaquilia yn icuentemi cenpoualli omatlactli ca necoc yxquich = se la doy [mis camellones], que de ancho y largo es igual [30] (Santa Agueda Mixtetelco, sin fecha)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 204-205.

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