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sala.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
sala.
Principal English Translation: 

hall, room
(a loanword from Spanish)

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

living room, large central room. 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), 232.

Attestations from sources in English: 

sen salan omnicpieyan ye oxixitin (Centlalpan, Chalco, 1736)
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. 10.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quipia se sala se aposento se cosina = se componen de una sala, aposento y cocina (San Juan Atlangatepec, 1551)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 92–93.