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amen.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
amen.
Principal English Translation: 

Amen
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
ame
Attestations from sources in English: 

ma moyecteneva yn itocatçin in totemaquixticatçin yn iesu xpo— Amen (Coyoacan, circa 1550) Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 26.

y mochua Ame = may it be done, amen (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1695)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 145.

Ma yn mochihua Amen (Metepec, 1795)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 6.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)