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mayor.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
mayor.
Principal English Translation: 

major, greater (often part of a longer term or title)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
mayol
Attestations from sources in English: 

notoca Juo Pablo fiscal mayol Callimaya = my name is Juan Pablo, fiscal mayor of Calimaya (San San Pedro y San Pablo Calimaya of 1653.
Salt Lake City, Genealogical Library, microfilm 695644, 1612–1651. Harvested from the microfilm by Stephanie Wood.

ontetl missa mayor (Coyoacan, 1573)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 16.

alcalde mayor (Nombre de Dios, Durango, late 16th century, 1585? )
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 23.

ontetl missa manior nopan mitoz ... yn ontetl missa mayor (Coyoacan, 1588)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 2.

centetl missa mayor yc palehuiloz naniman (San Bartolomé Atenco, Coyoacan, 1617)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 3.

Juan bapta regor maor (location unclear, circa 1632)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 7.

Don franco hernandez gobernador yhua antonio perez allde ortinario juo pablo juo ximeo alldes andres bunefacia regitor mayor franco juares rexitor alexu martonato rexito (Tehuacan, 1642)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 24.

oncan yglesia mayor caltenpan (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
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. 9.