(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
machete.
Principal English Translation:
a very large knife, almost sword-like (attested as a loanword from Spanish in a Nahuatl document from 1549)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
ma:chet = machete
Ne ma:chet ne:mi tic ne ma:jsal. = El machete esta: en la rama. (Sonsonate, El Salvador, Nahuat or Pipil, s. XX)