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valle.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
valle.
Principal English Translation: 

valley (part of the title of Hernando Cortés, Marqués del Valle); often a reference to the Valley of Oaxaca, part of his domain
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn don herdo cortes capitan general catca in margues del valle (Huejotzingo, 1560)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 19.

totlahtocauh marques del vale (Cuernavaca, circa 1610)
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), Doc. 4.

tengo en el baye = Tenango del Valle (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1654)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 138.

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