principala.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
principala.
Principal English Translation: 

the female equivalent of principal, an indigenous person of high status
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
prensipala
Attestations from sources in English: 

y nehual notoca Maria Micaela yxpocatl = prenSipala = yhuan CanSigque = I named Maria Micaela, unmarried woman, principala and cacique (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1762)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 140.