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tortilla.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
tortilla.
Principal English Translation: 

tortilla (a loanword from Spanish)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aocmo nesia ma pan ma tortillas yn tianquisco ma tienda = Neither wheat bread nor tortillas could be found, neither in the marketplace nor in shops. (Puebla 1675–1699)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 205.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking