sobrino. / sobrina.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword:

sobrino. / sobrina.

Principal English Translation:

nephew, niece
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants:

subrino, çobrino, suprina

Attestations from sources in English:

noçobrina, noçobrino = my niece, my nephew
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 54.

ychpoch y Emperador de Roma ca ysuprina (Granada, Spain, 1598)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 33.

axCa niquinCahuilia noSobrinos SenSe almū = Now I leave it to my nieces and nephews, I almud each. (Santa María de la Asunción, Toluca Valley, 1762)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 172.

llehuatzin nosubrinotzin Dn Martin Gregorio = my nephew don Martín Gregorio (Toluca valley, 1822)
Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 176–177.

themes:

Family, Kinship, Descent