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gobernadortia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
gobernadortia.
Principal English Translation: 

to serve as municipal governor (partly a loanword from Spanish, gobernador, municipal governor)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh iniquac gobernadortiya Don Luys Xicotencatl = y cuando era gobernador don Luys Xicotencatl (Tlaxcala, 1563)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 25.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance