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burro.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
burro.
Principal English Translation: 

donkey
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

se burrito pardo = a gray burro (Saltillo, 1776)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 438–439.

yey boritus = three little donkeys (San Miguel Aticpac, Toluca Valley, 1711)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 71.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ze burro huel yxtlamatini yhuan cenpoali onchicome potros yhuan nahui mulitas yhuan caxtoli machos ye ce xihuitl quipia = Y un burro maestro y veinti y ocho potros con cuatro mulitas, y quince machos de año (Tepexi de la Seda, 1621)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 112–113.

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