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durazno.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
durazno.
Principal English Translation: 

peach
(a loanword from Spanish)

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

peach, peach tree. Sp.
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), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

oncan mamani durasnos (Coyoacan, 1622)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 4.

chicahuac omochiuh durasno se carga ypatiuh se yhuã melio = peaches yielded abundantly; the cost of a load was 1½ reales
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 104–105.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Zan no ipan xihuitl huel omochiuh Durasno ce tomin ipatiuh ocatca se tlamemeli = En el mismo año se dieron con abundancia los Duraznos, un real valía la carga (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 89-90.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking