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tío.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
tío.
Principal English Translation: 

uncle
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

MicCatzitli CacCa nitiotzin CacCa Mateotzin = late poor dead person who was my uncle, Mateo (Santiago Apóstol Quaxochtenco, Toluca Valley, 1703)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 241.

yhuan nican nimachiotia: notiyo: ytoca diego de Santiago: nechhuiquillia ome pēso = And here I record that my uncle name Diego de Santiago owes me 2 pesos (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1693)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 132.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mayordomo Diego Bortillo molatotzin yn oc çe ça ytiotzin moquixtiano chichihua ytoca Luis = Mayordomo, el mulato Diego Portillo, el otro era su tío llamado Luis que se vestía como christiano (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 336–337.

themes: 
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