Headword:
tenapalo.
Principal English Translation:
one who is responsible for others; a godparent; a governor
Orthographic Variants:
tenapaloani
Attestations from sources in English:
motlanāquililia yn tenapaloque inPadrinos = their godparents are responsible.
Andrés Sáenz de la Peña, Manual de los Santo Sacramentos, 1643, f. 35r.; translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix E, 16.
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