Principal English Translation:
Orthographic Variants:
cecen, cecentetl, cec, ced, sed
Alonso de Molina:
Cecen, vel, cecentetl. cada vno sendos, o acada vno sendos, o acada vno dellos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 15r.
Attestations from sources in English:
niman yc quinmamaltiaya y çeçeme ychpupuchti = then they had each of the maidens carry [the ears of maize] on their backs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 58.
chiquacen bara sayal ipatiuh cecen bara cecen peso = six varas of serge worth one peso per vara (Saltillo, 1627)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 428–429.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
se se barrio = barrio por barrio
AGN Tierras 1702, exp. 3, ff. 78r–81r. Research by Stephanie Wood.