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paz.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
paz.
Principal English Translation: 

peace
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

1610. años. yhquac ye chiquacentzillini. nican yhtic ciudad Mexico. ahcico. yc callaquico. aҫo huel caxtollonnahui tlacatl. yn Jabon china tlaca. ce pilli ynteuhcyo yn quinhualhuicac. enbaxador. ynteuhctitlan yn huey tlahtohuani emperador jabon. tlamatca yeliztli paz. quichihuaco. yn inhuicpa christianosme. ynic ayc moyaochihuazque = the year 1610, at 6 o'clock, was when perhaps as many as nineteen people from Japan, in China, arrived and entered here in the city of Mexico. A noble, their lord, the ambassador, from the court of the great ruler the emperor in Japan, who brought them, came to make peace with the Christians so that they would never make war (central Mexico, 1610)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 170–1.