no tiene medida, porque dura diez y veinte días el saludarlos. Cuando los que son saludados son principales, y señores los que saludan, danlos presentes de mantas ricas; y si la criatura es hembra, dan na [sic] naoas y huipiles, hasta veinte o cuarenta. Y esto llaman ixquémitl, que quiere decir "ropa para envolver al nino". Entre los que no son señores, sino gente honrada o rica, llevan una ma[n]ta y un maxtli, o unas naoas y un huipilli si es hembra la que nació. Y los que son de baxa suerte usan hacer esta salutación presentando comida y bebida.
\nhas no limit, because the salutations last from ten to twenty days. When those who are saluted are nobles, and the ones saluting are lords, they give them rich capes as presents. And if the baby is female, they give as many as twenty or forty skirts1 and huipiles. And they call this ixquemitl, which means “wrapping cloth for the child.” And among those who are not lords but just honest or wealthy people, they bring a cape and a mastle, or some skirts and a hupilli if the newborn is female. And those who are of a lower lot practice this greeting by giving presents of food and drink.
\n“Skirts”: naguas (here and in the following sentence).↩
ma oc cenca itlan xonmocalaquj nopiltze, telpuchtle, xole.
\nAuh amo çan tamachiuhquj: in tlapalolo coçolli, in noço pilhoa: aço matlaqujlhvitl, anoço cempoalilvitl in nemj tetlapalolli.
\nAuh in tlatoque, in pipilti: ic tlapalolo quachtli, tilmatli, tlaçotilmatli: intla cioatl, cueitl, vipilli: aço cenqujmjlli, aço onqujmjlli. Injn itoca ixquemjtl. Auh î çan aca mâmaviztic: aço centetzintli tilmatzintli, maxtlatzintli: anoço cueitl, vipilli. Auh in qujtzacuja, tlaqualtzintli, atzintli, octli: injc qujtlapaloa
\nBe especially diligent in it, O my son, O youth, O servant.”
\nAnd it was for an indefinite time that the cradle or the parents were greeted—perhaps the greetings lasted ten days or twenty days.
\nAnd the rulers, the noblemen were greeted with large cotton capes, with capes, with precious capes; if [the baby] were female, [with] skirts, shifts, perhaps twenty or forty. The name of this was ixquemitl. And when it was just someone of honor,1 either a cape [and] a breech clout or a skirt [and] shift [were given]. And he who was of the least greeted with food, with drink, with pulque.
\nIbid.: “entre los que no son señores, sino gente honrrada o rica… .”↩