(a loanword from Spanish)
silver
(a loanword from Spanish)
(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Auh yc niman yehuantin quimontocatiaque in pipiltzitzinti ycnotlaca in huapahuallo S. Juan de letra in motenehua colegio de los niños, quihuicaq̃. yn incruz teocuitlatl plata tepitzin. = And next there followed the orphaned children who are raised at San Juan de Letrán, which is called the Colegio de los Niños; they took along their small silver cross. (central Mexico, 1612)