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quezquintin.

Headword: 
quezquintin.
Principal English Translation: 

how many are there?

IPAspelling: 
keːskintin
Alonso de Molina: 

quezquintin? quantos o quantas son?
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

cate oc quesquintin omo cauque = además otros cuantos se quedaron en su lugar (Estado de Hidalgo, ca. 1722?)
Rocío Cortés, El "nahuatlato Alvarado" y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Colonial Spanish American Series, 2011), 32, 43.