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Anunciación.

Headword: 
Anunciación.
Principal English Translation: 

Annunciation, the feast day of the Annunciation

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh yn ipan axcan Domingo. ypan ylhuitzin yn tlaçocihuapilli ynic quimotlapalhuico. Angel St . gabriel. yn motenehua anunciacion yc xxv. mani metztli de março de 1601 ao s. yquac omochiuh ŷ sancta yglesia yJusticiatzĩ y motenehua auto. Sancto oficion ynquisicion. =“And today, Sunday, on the feast day of the precious Lady, when the angel San Gabriel came to greet her, called the Annunciation, the 25th of the month of March of the year 1601, was when the justice of the holy church, called an auto da fe, [of] the Holy Office of the Inquisition, was held” (Chimalpahin 2006: 72). [annals (AHT, AJB), vocabulary (VM 1); time
range: 1566–1601]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 81.