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leal.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
leal.
Principal English Translation: 

loyal
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ypan mui noble y mui leal ciudad de tlaxcalan (Tlaxcala, 1566)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 1.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ypan leal zibdad de Tlaxcallan = En la leal ciudad de Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, 1565)
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), 37.