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Indias.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Indias.
Principal English Translation: 

the Indies, the Americas in the time of Spanish colonization

Orthographic Variants: 
indiame, yndias
Attestations from sources in English: 

yn ixpatzinco y consejo Real de yndias (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.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nican indiame = aquí de las Indias (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 252–253.

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