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hacienda.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
hacienda.
Principal English Translation: 

an estate; a significant agricultural or stockraising property
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Cuento en mexicano de Milpa Alta, D.F. ("El muchacho que huye con una muchacha"). "Uno novios huyen a caballo perseguidos por el padre de la muchacha. Para ocultarse él se vuelve pájaro y ella cerezo. Después se convierten en campana e iglesia y, finalmente, en cerca y hacienda." (Escuchado en Milpa Alta, D.F. González Casanova, 1920, 25–27.)
Fernando Horcasitas, "La narrativa oral náhuatl (1920–1975)," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 177–209, ver 188.

mochi yn quexquich nican omotlali omotenehuac hacienda = todo lo que llevo declarado tocante a esta dicha hacienda (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), 114–115.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Land Tenure