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cayani.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cayani.
Principal English Translation: 

gañán = a resident worker, typically on an estate, a hired hand (see the entry for gañán)

Rebecca Horn's notecards from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart, ca. late 1970s and early 1980s.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
See also: 
gañán.