Cuando ya la preñada estaba en días de parir, juntábanse la segunda vez los parientes, viejos y viejas, y aparejábase la comida y bebida. Después que habían comido y bebido llamaban a la partera que les parecía ser tal y para este efecto. Primero se hablaba los padres de los casados, y levantábase a orar o hablar un viejo, o de la parte del mozo o de la moza, y decía desta manera: "Señores padres y madres destos casados, aquí estáis presentes. Ya esta muchacha anda en días de parir, y anda fatigada con su preñado, porque ya se llega el tiempo donde se manifestará lo que fuere la voluntad de Dios. ¿Qué sabemos si murirá? Conviene, señores, que la ayudéis. Conviene que reciba algunos
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\n“How . . . die?”: “¿Qué sabemos si murirá?” The subject of the conditional clause could be either the mother or the baby. The Nahuatl text is equally nonspecific, using the passive voice in the present tense, as the speaker wonders, “Cujx a vncan câ miqujztli” (Perhaps there will be death).↩
In ie tomaoa in ijti in cioatzintli: in noço ovel macic, in ovel nez in ijti: ic oppa mocentlalia in vevetque, in jlamatque, mocencaoa in qualonj, in joanj. In otlaqualoc, in oatlioac: vncan qujnotza, vncan qujtlatlauhtia in ticitl in tetlacachivilianj, in temjxivitianj, in jmac tlacatioanj. Achtopa nepanotl monotza, motlapaloa, motlatlauhtia in pilhoaque: ce vevetlacatl tlatoa, aço telpucheque, anoço ichpucheque: qujtoa.
\nCa njcan anmonoltitoque in annanti, in antati: a nelle axcan motolinja in piltontli, in conetontli, in jchpuchtontli, ca ivin ie vnca, y, a[viz]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"d96b592e-4b0d-49bc-bd8f-57e08aed3fe7","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"#### the pregnant one was already in the seventh or eighth month, the mothers, the fathers of the married couple assembled one’s kinsmen; and they drank, they ate. And thereafter there was consultation as to some midwife to be sought out, to be supplicated to bathe their maiden in the sweat bath and to serve as midwife.\n\nWhen that which was within the little woman was already enlarged, when it was time, when that within her was apparent, thereupon the old men, the old women assembled themselves for the second time. Food, drink were prepared. When there had been eating, when there had been drinking, then they summoned, they supplicated a midwife, the one who brought about birth, the one who delivered, the one in charge of birth. First, the parents spoke with one another; they greeted, they entreated one another. One of the old men, either of the youth’s people or of the maiden’s people, spoke. He said:\n\n“Ye who are here present, ye who are mothers, ye who are fathers, verily, now, the child, the girl, the maiden, suffereth. For already it is thus. But","html":"When that which was within the little woman was already enlarged, when it was time, when that within her was apparent, thereupon the old men, the old women assembled themselves for the second time. Food, drink were prepared. When there had been eating, when there had been drinking, then they summoned, they supplicated a midwife, the one who brought about birth, the one who delivered, the one in charge of birth. First, the parents spoke with one another; they greeted, they entreated one another. One of the old men, either of the youth’s people or of the maiden’s people, spoke. He said:
\n“Ye who are here present, ye who are mothers, ye who are fathers, verily, now, the child, the girl, the maiden, suffereth. For already it is thus. But
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