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de.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
de.
Principal English Translation: 

of, from
(a loanword from Spanish)

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

preposition. from, of. mainly in unanalyzed Sp. loan phrases. Sp.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

vmochihv in ciudad de tlsn— cenpualilhuitl metztli março de 1545 xiuitl (Tlaxcala, 1545)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 34.

itech poviz ycamara de su mgt (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22.

Viernes iiii metztli de nuvienbre 1547 Años (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22.