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huérfano.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
huérfano.
Principal English Translation: 

orphan

Orthographic Variants: 
ferfano
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

oquitlatlani en ferfanos quinamacazquia oticpalevique ymamacuili Reales = preguntó por los huérfanos a quienes iba a vender, y a quienes rescatamos con cinco reales por cada uno.
Nuestro pesar, nuestra aflicción / tunetuliniliz, tucucuca; Memorias en lengua náhuatl enviadas a Felipe II por indígenas del Valle de Guatemala hacia 1572, introduction by Cristopher H. Lutz, paleography and translation by Karen Dakin (México: UNAM and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, 1996, 30–31.

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