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alfiler.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alfiler.
Principal English Translation: 

pin

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh ytech quipia ytech tlatlalili ey tepozhuitzmalotl agujas, ahnoço alfileres ca quihtonequi quinezcayotia tlamahuiçolli. =“It has on it, placed on it, three metal needles or pins which mean and signify miracles” (Chimalpahin 2006: 266). [annals (AHT); time range: 1613]
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), 74.