B

Letter B: Displaying 1 - 20 of 55
letter “b”.

graduate of the first level of university studies

low, of low quality
(a loanword from Spanish)

bullet
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
bargo, barco

a balcony
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
Bartasal, Bartasar, Baltensal

a Christian name, a saint's name, one of the biblical Three Kings; taken at baptism by indigenous men; interesting, too, for the orthographic variations as it was written in Nahuatl, given the challenges of pronouncing r and l; also, a patron saint for some communities

Tlayi, ximocehuiti pan ne bancoh (Sullivan et al. 2016: 40). = Sir, go and sit down on that bench. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 96.

Domingo VII mayo yquac ua[n]copa motlalique teyaca[n]que (Anales de Juan Bautista 2001: 194). Sunday, the 7th of May, was when the leaders seated themselves on the benches. [annals (AJB); time range: 1564]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 96.

Juan quichihchihuiliah ce cuabancoh pampa quinpiyaz miac paxaloanih moztla (Sullivan et al. 2016: 128). = They are making a wooden bench for Juan because tomorrow he will have many visitors. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 96.

Orthographic Variants: 
pantera, padera, vandera, vamderra

a flag, a banner
(a loanword from Spanish)

fallow land
(a loanword from Spanish)

barber-surgeon
(a loanword from Spanish)

ravine
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
parena

an auger, a drill
(a loanword from Spanish)

ward, neighborhood
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
Paltholome

a Christian saint's name, taken by some indigenous men upon baptism; also interesting for the orthographic variations when written in Nahuatl (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
pastitor

stretched linen
(a loanword from Spanish)

Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 472–473.