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lunes.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
lunes.
Principal English Translation: 

Monday
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
lones
Attestations from sources in English: 

lonestica namechnanquiliz (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22.

Lunes Ic chicomilhuitl metztli de nobienbre 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. 21.

in ipan centetl semana oppan in teiamicoz in cepa iquac lunes Av inic opa yquac sabado yn ihvqui mochiva sabado yn novia valyallova (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22.

Lunes yc xx dias Del mes de junio de 1575 años (Coyoacan, 1575)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 20.

Yn axca tonatiuh lonestica cepohuali omacuili metzintli marzo (Nombre de Dios, Durango, late 16th cent., 1585?)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 23.

ipan lunes caxtonlli yn ipan metztli ynin junio (Coyoacan, 1613)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 6.

lunes yc i dias del mes de augustus 1617 años (San Bartolomé Atenco, Coyoacan, 1617)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 3.

ypan tonali lunes (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 9.

Lunestica yuan jueuestica mopouaz = on Mondays, and Thursdays it will be counted (mid sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 125.