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chapines chiuhqui.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
chapines chiuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

one who makes clogs (?) (if so, partly a loanword from Spanish, chapín, clog) (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

chapines chiuhqui. chapinero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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