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zazan ye calli.

Headword: 
zazan ye calli.
Principal English Translation: 

a common house (see attestations); any old house (SW)

Attestations from sources in English: 

çaçan ie calli = casas comunes = common houses
"quitoznequi, amo cenca qualli, calli" = "it means the not very good house" (Anderson & Dibble translation) (central Mexico, sixteenth century, by the 1570s at the latest)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 242r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/242r . Accessed 2 February 2026.

Note other uses of zazan and their translations as

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
See also: 
zazan.
zazan campa.
zazan tleino.