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Letter A: Displaying 961 - 980 of 2551

alcalde.

Orthographic Variants: 
algalde, alcalte

a first-instance judge attached to a local municipal government; this was a term used for both indigenous and Spanish officials
Caterina Pizzigoni, Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), 248.

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alcaldeti.

to be or to become judge

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alcaldeyotl.

the office of the alcalde, a member of the municipal council (partly a loanword from Spanish, with the -yotl ending from Nahuatl) (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 136–137.

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Alemania.

Orthographic Variants: 
Alimania

Germany

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alfajor.

corn cake with brown sugar and pepper

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alfanje.

a type of sable, short and curved, with a sharp edge only on one side, except at the point (see attestations)

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alfehorez.

crumbly shortbread.
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alférez.

ensign

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alfiler.

pin

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alfombra.

carpet

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alguacil mayor menor.

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alguacil mayor.

Orthographic Variants: 
alhuacil mayor, alhuasil mayor, alhuasil mayol

a chief constable; an officer who was a part of the town council (cabildo)

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alguacil.

Orthographic Variants: 
alguazil, alguaçil, alhuacil, alhuaçil, arguazil, alhuasil

a constable, a sub-cabildo officer
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

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alhóndiga.

public granary

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alimento.

Orthographic Variants: 
arimentos

food (see attestations)

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allacatl.

ɑllɑkɑtɬ

a long squash; or, a utensil for getting honey from the maguey (agave) plant (see Molina)

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allahuac.

Orthographic Variants: 
allauac

phlegm
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 281.

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almádena.

sledgehammer

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almártiga.

horse-riding apparatus (see attestations)

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almendrasaceite.

almond oil

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