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castilteca.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
castilteca.
Principal English Translation: 

Spaniards
(a loanword from Spanish, rooted in the place of origin, Castilla)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuã tlaqualtzĩtli quitemacaya. in castilteca. yvã teyzminaya = and the Spaniards gave people food and bled them (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 54–55.

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