tlahca. yn onpeuhque Tiyacahuan Joldadostin ahҫonpohuallonmatlactin ҫan mochintin palacio nemi yn oyahque tlapiazque huey atenco Acapulco, yhuan ompa quichiazque yn omoteneuh la china acalli ynic aciquiuh. Auh yniqueilhuitl yn ipan Jueues. oc ceppa cenpohuallonnahui Tiyacahuan Joldadostin nican Mexico. onpeuhq̃. yn ompa hui omoteneuh acapu[lco a]hҫizque y yaotlapiazque = soldiers, warriors, set out, perhaps 50 of them, who are all stationed at the palace, who went to stand guard at the ocean shore at Acapulco and await there the arrival of the said ship from China. On the third day, Thursday, again soldiers, warriors, 24 of them, set out from Mexico here to reach the said Acapulco and stand guard (central Mexico, 1615)
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), 304–7.
auh yn Soldadostin noncua yahque in çan inyollocacopa hui china amo ynhuan nican mocenpohua = The soldiers went separately; they are going to China willingly and are not included in the total here. (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), 236–237.
ypan huey otli omotlallico miequintin yaotiacahuan Soldadostin españoles yn oyaotlapiaco tlahuiztica = many Spanish warriors, soldiers, came and were stationed on the highway to stand guard with their arms. (central Mexico, 1612)
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), 216–217.
Jordadosme. acalchimaltica quinnamicque yn acalloco = soldiers [mock warriors] met them in war boats in the canal (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 44–45.
quenami ce soldado (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.
opeuh quistimani yn soldadoz (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.
omentin Sant. Franco Padreme mohuicaque in yancuic mexico. quinmohuiquillique 20. Juldadosme. yquac mochi ya yn ixquich ompa monequiz yn cartillas. quimomachtizque ompa tlaca yhuan ya cornedas. chirimias ҫacapoch yhuan ce organo yhuan campanas. yhuan yztac amatl clauos. yhuan oc cequi tlamantli yn ompa monequiz. moch ya yhuã quezquintin quinhuicaque officialesme yn tolteca yn quinmachtizque ompa tlaca yn ica yzqui tlamantli tequitl = two Franciscan fathers went to New Mexico; at that time they took along twenty soldiers, and everything that would be needed there went along: primers to teach the people there, and cornets, chirimías, trombones, and an organ, and bells, European paper, nails, and other things that would be needed there all went along, and they took some artisans, craftsmen, to teach the people there in all the different kinds of work (central Mexico, 1609)
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), 156–157.
ce maestro tepozpitzqui. timacehualtin ytoca. ____ quimihualli visurrey ynic quinmachtiz ompa tlaca yancuic mexico 8.tin yn Juldadostin quinhuicac. españolesme = a master blacksmith, one of us commoners, named ____, set out and left for New Mexico. The viceroy sent him to teach the people there in New Mexico; he accompanied eight Spanish soldiers (central Mexico, 1609)
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), 158–159.
macuilpohualli yn moJuldados. chichiuhque yn arcabuz. quitlaztiaque yn quimoyacanillique sacramento = A hundred men gotten up as soldiers, who went shooting off harquebuses, went ahead of the Sacrament (central Mexico, 1610)
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), 164–165.
Soldadostin yaotlacahua aço huel chicuepohualtin in ye mochi yn necoccampa motecpanque = ...the soldiers, the warriors, perhaps a full hundred sixty in all. They lined up on both sides... [For a fuller description of the soldiers' weapons, banners, and drums, how they participated in the procession, and how they were being sent to the Philippines, consult the volume.] (central Mexico, 1612)
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), 208–209.
"oncā micqui ce solDados onca toctoc san estevan yn soltados itoca esteuan" = "...a soldier died there [in Tlaxcala]; he lies buried at San Esteban. The soldier's name was Esteban." (mentioned for the year 1519)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 10, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Note how the loan "soldado" is in the plural, even when the text refers to just one soldier. (SW)