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adiós

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
adiós
Principal English Translation: 

goodbye

Attestations from sources in English: 

Axcan quema ye nonnohuica Adios, adios Cacahuatzin. =“I’m leaving now. Goodbye, goodbye,
Cacahuatzin” (Sell, Burkhart & Poole eds. 2006:160). [religious play (EPM); time range: ca. 1712 (?)]
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), 66.

themes: 
Theater, Drama