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alhóndiga.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alhóndiga.
Principal English Translation: 

public granary

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh niman iquac quimopehualtili cali tlaolcalco ynic tlanamacaz alfodica (Zapata y Mendoza 1995: 276). =And at that time [the lieutenant governor] founded the maize storage building so that things could be sold at a grain exchange. [annals (ZM); time range: 1643]
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), 75.

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Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
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