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nencauh.

Headword:

nencauh.

Principal English Translation:

1) (when possessed) one's servant, dependent; or, 2) when not possessed, nencauh can be a negligent person or an abandoned person (see nencahua)

Alonso de Molina:

nencauh. no. mi criado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Horacio Carochi / English:

-nencāuh = one's servant, dependent
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 507.

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents nencauh in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

itlanecahuan ytetlaqualticahuan = sus criados y paniaguados (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 508–509.

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Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites