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albaceatopileh.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
albaceatopileh.
Principal English Translation: 

official in charge of executorship

Attestations from sources in English: 

yxpan omochiuh m͞i͞n de s.diago albaçiatopille. =“Done before Martín de Santiago, executortopileh” (Cline & León-Portilla eds. 1983: 106). [will (TC 31, TC 45, TC 47); time range: 1580–1581]
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), 69.

Ymixpan omochiuh augustin vazquez Miguel Joseph pode sanct nicollas dio Ellias aluaçia topil leque barbara tlacoh ynac yn cocoxqui ye momiquilliznequi. =“Done before Agustín Vázquez, Miguel Josef, Pedro de San Nicolás, and Diego Elías, executors-topilehqueh; Bárbara 70  albacea major Tla co, wife of the sick person who is about to die” (Cline & León-Portilla eds. 1983: 170). [will (TC 31, TC 45, TC 47); time range: 1580–1581]
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), 69-70.