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limosna.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
limosna.
Principal English Translation: 

an offering, or donation to the church, alms
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynic amo nelli. qualli limosna yn quichihua yn (8) quipia = so that the alms they make and have are false and bad
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 90–91.

plural s written part of the time as z
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 52.

omomacaque cantores limosna [S. Francisco Analcotitlan (Jalisco?), 1652]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8.

cofradia otitemacaque limosna conception sulidat = cofradias of the Conception and the Solitude [S. Francisco Analcotitlan (Jalisco?), 1652]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8, 82–83.

limosna ticmacalo toguardian (San Martín Hidalgo, Jalisco, 1653)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 28.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh yniC oticxenxeloque oCalac ynglesia limosna oCona fray Lucas verdezo guartia onpohually ynhua ome fanegas, 42 fanegas = Así separamos el tributo pagado en limosna a la iglesia. Fray Lucas Verdezo, guardián, tomó las 42 fanegas. (San Andrés Chiautla, 1638)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 168–169.