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cexiuhtica.

Headword: 
cexiuhtica.
Principal English Translation: 

yearly, annually; once a year; every year; between years, in a year, for a year, or after a year (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

Cexiuhtica. entre año, o en vn año, o despues de vn año.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 18v.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…cexiuhtica yn imacica moyaochiuhque yn tolteca…. = Durante un año los conquistados del tolteca hicieron la guerra….(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 161, 158.

yn axcan ya peua yn zan cexiuhtica gobernador mopatlaz = Y ahora empieza el cambio anual del governador (s. XVI, Tlaxcala)
John Sullivan, "Construcción de dos enunciados colectivos en el Cabildo de Tlaxcala," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 32 (2001), 309.

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