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Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.
to be or become the foundation, to have a beginning or a start at being/existing
otzintic opeuh = it began (Sahagún, sixteenth century, Mexico City)
yhuan yn amixquichtin yn āmexica yn antenocha nican anquimatizque yn iuh peuhticatqui yn iuh tzintiticatque = and all of you Mexica, you Tenochca here will know that such was the beginning, such was the origin of what we have called the great altepetl, the altepetl of Mexico Tenochtitlan (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
canpa tzintica = where it begins
yn quenin omotzinti quename otitlalmacoque = how it [i.e. our town] was started, how we were given lands