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sujeto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
sujeto.
Principal English Translation: 

term used by Spaniards for outlying indigenous entities in the belief that they were ruled from a dominant center like the Spanish hamlets
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhuan nohuyan yn quexquich sojeto = y sus sujetos (Zempoala, "1610", but probably Techialoyan-related)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 96–97.

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