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andasco.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
andasco.
Principal English Translation:
on a carrying platform; this combines the loanword andas with the Nahuatl locative suffix -co
Attestations from sources in English:
auh in Vela cruz. Sancto. ligno cruz andasco. micatiltitiuh. palio. yc quimocaltilitihui. = “And the true cross, a cross with a relic of the true cross, went standing on a carrying platform, [they] went sheltering it under a canopy” (Chimalpahin 2006: 82). [annals (AHT); time range: 1604]