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nenamictiliztica tenan.

Headword: 
nenamictiliztica tenan.
Principal English Translation: 

a godmother (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

nenamictiliztica tenan. madrina desta manera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

nohuiyan cuauhtla o nohuiyan tepeuh yn ceppayahuitl o cepayauh cenca chicahuac in motecac cepayahuitl oc cenca oncan ytech yn chicahuac motecac tepetl yn quitocayotia Tenan ỹ nican tonahuac catqui cuyohuacan = And in the forests all around the snow came down and it snowed. It made a very heavy covering; it covered especially heavily the mountain they call Tenan which is here near to us, in Coyoacan. (central Mexico, 1613)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 234–235.

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