# una persona ofrece en algún lugar su pollo a otro porque quiere cambiarlo por dindero. “Cocelito le vende el pollo a su esposa caundo esta borracho y con eso ba a tomar”.
(early seventeenth century, central New Spain) Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 202–203.
lawsuit; controversy; conflicts, arguments (a loanword from Spanish) 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), 230. also, in the plural (pleitome), those who are litigating, the pleitistas (in Spanish) (ca. 1582, México) 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), 27.
a type of chile that is dried and smoked to make it last
(Valley of Mexico, 1570–1587)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 110.