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ichcaconetl.

Headword: 
ichcaconetl.
Principal English Translation: 

lamb(s) (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

ichcaconetl. cordero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 32r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nican ancate in annotlamachtilhuan in annoapostolhuā, nican otitocentlalique yn techan ynic ticchihuazque yn pasqua ynic tiquazque yn ichcaconetl yn iuh otlanahuatitehuac yn Moysen = Here you are, you who are My disciples, who are My apostles,. Here we have assembled in another's home in order to celebrate the Passover, when we are to eat the lamb, as Moses commanded before he died. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 172–173.