Trecena, veintena and the Nahuatl term for month

[Campbell, R. Joe]

In the Florentine Codex, Book Four:

CAPITULO PRIMERO
Del primero signo llamado ce cipactli y de la buena fortuna que
tenian los que en el nacian ansi hombres como mugeres si no
la perdian por su negligencia o floxura
Aqui comien%an los caracteres de cada dia que contavan
por   trezenas   Eran treze dias en cda semana y hazian un
circulo de dozientos y sesenta dias y despues tornavan al
principio

***% for c cedilla

Joe

p.s. plis forgive the typos...
Quoting "John F. Schwaller" <schwallr at potsdam.edu>:

>
> The time frame is accurate, I'd say.  I did a quick search in JSTOR.  The
> first citation for veintena comes in 1908 when it is cited in a review of
> Robelo, Diccionario de mejicanismos.
>
> The first use of trecena in scholarly articles occurred in 1900 in a piece
> by Bowditch in the American Anthropologist, on "The Lords of the Night."
>
>
>
>
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