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ipaltzinco.

Headword: 
ipaltzinco.
Principal English Translation: 

from someone (often in a phrase with money); with someone's help (often, God's help, through his grace)

Orthographic Variants: 
ypaltzinco
Alonso de Molina: 

Ipaltzinco. por el, o mediante el. Prepo. para jurar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 41v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See also ipal.

Azoc uel achic, azoc cemiluitl in ipaltzinco in totecuyo. Inin tlatolli, itechpa mitoaya in aquin tlatocati,, tepachoa: ic tlatlatlauhitloya, ic chicaualoya, ellaquaualo = Perhaps a few minutes, perhaps even a day, with the help of our Lord. These words were said to the ruler, to the person who governed, whereby he was exhorted, fortified, and given courage.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 164–165.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)