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zazoacye.

Headword: 
zazoacye.
Principal English Translation: 

whichever one, or whoever

Orthographic Variants: 
çaço ac ye, zazo ac ye, zazo ac, çaçoacye
Alonso de Molina: 

çaçoacye. qualquiera que sea, o sea quien se fuere. çaço acyehuatl. idem. çaço aquin. idem. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 13v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in çaço ac tehuatl tichristiano = whoever you are, you Christian (Mexico City, 1577) Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 64. çaço = ever, perhaps, however much, however what Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.