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aceiteyoh.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
aceiteyoh.
Principal English Translation: 

oily (lit., covered with oil)

Orthographic Variants: 
aceiteyo
Attestations from sources in English: 

Azeitosa cosa. azeiteyo. chiauiça (Molina 1992,I: 18r). = Oily thing: something covered with oil; something covered with grease. [vocabulary (VM 1); time range: 1571]
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), 65.