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Classical Nahuatl
Etymology
ēyi "three" + -pa
Pronunciation
Adverb
ēxpa
- Thrice; three times.
1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de los adverbios della:in ye ic expa motlátlātlauhtilìtìcaya in Totēcuiyo, yēquénè moquīxtìtihuetzico in ītlachīhualtzin in Angel, à la tercera vez, que orò Nuestro Señor, vino finalmente, el Angel criatura suya.
(The third time that our Lord prayed, the angel, his creature, finally came.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 222
- Carochi, Horacio (2001) James Lockhart, transl., Grammar of the Mexican Language, with an Explanation of its Adverbs (1645), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pages 428–429
- Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 78
- Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 217
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
Adjective
expa
- third.