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cayanis.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cayanis.
Principal English Translation: 

gañanes (hired men, orthographic example comes from Mexico City, 1634)  Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 103.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Occupations, Responsibilities