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amo maca.

Headword: 
amo maca.
Principal English Translation: 

without doubt

Horacio Carochi / English: 

àmō màca = without doubt
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 452–55, 497.

Attestations from sources in English: 

macac omeya yyollo = let no one doubt (suggesting a possible alternate translation of a passage from the Cantares Mexicanos, Bierhorst, 236–37, verse 10)
James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 147.