muchin pipiltzitzintin yhuan sequintin huehuey tlaca oquitzatzilique oquilhuique pan pan pa señor capitan ye tapismiquisque ye tapismiquisque = all the children together with some adults shouted to him, telling him "Bread, bread, bread, lord captain, we'll starve, we'll starve!"
(Puebla, 1675–1699)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 206.
aocmo nesia ma pan ma tortillas yn tianquisco ma tienda = Neither wheat bread nor tortillas could be found, neither in the marketplace nor in shops.
(Puebla, 1675–1699)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 205.
omobligaroque ynic san yehuantin quichihuasque pan = obliged themselves that only they would make bread (Puebla, 1675–1699)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 205.
omononotzque onpualli ommatlactli caxtilteca ynic san yehuantin quichihuasque yn pantzin = fifty Spaniards agreed that only they would make [wheat] bread. (Puebla, 1675–1699)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 205.
omotlastihuetz pregon ynic quichihuasque yn masenhualtzitzin yn pantzin = a proclamation was hastily made that the indigenous people would make bread
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 124–125.