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oc cenca ye.

Headword: 
oc cenca ye.
Principal English Translation: 

principally, especially (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
occenca ye
Alonso de Molina: 

Occenca ye. mayormente, o especialmente. Aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 74v.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

oc yè cencâ = more than (comparative)
Horacio Carochi, Grammar of the Mexican Language: With an Explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart (), 323.

Attestations from sources in English: 

From oc cenca plus ye as an intensifier.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Oc cenca ye = oc ye cenca = expresiones que igualmente equivalen a mucho...
Macario Torres, Estudios gramaticales sobre el "náhuatl" (León: Tip. de J. Rivera e Hijos, 1887).