a person with (theoretically) one-quarter indigenous heritage, three-quarters Spanish; sometimes translated as a "quadroon;" the female version is castiza
(a loanword from Spanish)
past tense of cah, to be; can also mean "the late," or deceased
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.
are; present plural of cah, to be, a variant of cateh James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.