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Payan.

Headword: 
Payan.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male); possibly something to do with crumbling or grinding

Orthographic Variants: 
Paya
Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca paya = named Payan (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 126–127.