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Letter C/CH: Displaying 821 - 840 of 5729

carabina.

a weapon; a short-barrelled musket?
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cárcel.

jail (a loanword from Spanish)

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carcetinez.

socks.
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cardas.

Orthographic Variants: 
calax

carders (to prepare wool or cotton for for spinning) (see attestations)

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carga.

a load; also, a measure of maize seed, which also translates into a certain amount of land (e.g. a field into which can be planted one carga of maize)

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cargo.

charge
(a loanword from Spanish)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 44.

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caridad.

Orthographic Variants: 
charidad

charity (see attestations)

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Carlos V.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519–1556), and Charles I, king of Spain (1516–1556)

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Carmelitas.

Carmelites; a Roman Catholic religious order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel founded in the 12th c.
(a loanword from Spanish)

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carnecero.

Orthographic Variants: 
calneçelo

a butcher; this term appears in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco folio 648 recto

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carnero.

Orthographic Variants: 
carnello, galnero

ram, sheep (a loanword from Spanish)

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carnestolendas.

Orthographic Variants: 
carnestoretas

Shrovetide (a Catholic religious observation; a loanword from Spanish)

(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), 142–143.

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carocha.

cattle prod (?) (see attestations)
(a loandword from Spanish)

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Carochi.

e.g. the Jesuit father Horacio Carochi was an expert in Nahuatl; his grammar (Arte de la Lengua Mexicana, 1645) is unequaled, particularly rich for its helpful diacritics

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.

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carōnah.

saddle blanket or pad.
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carpintero.

a carpinter
(a loanword from Spanish)

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carrera.

career, major at a university (a loanword from Spanish)

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carrerah.

quickly.
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carrerahhuiā.

to chase s.o. or an animal.
#Una persona, animal salvaje y animal domestico corretean a otro. “Armando corretea a un señor por que le robó”.
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carrerahyoh.

quickly.
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