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sierra.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
sierra.
Principal English Translation: 

a saw

Attestations from sources in English: 

çentetl acha ycc otlayxptlayotililoc (sic) teopan ocallac siera quauhteconi = an axe in exchange for a saw for cutting wood which was given to the church (Culhuacan, sixteenth century)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 13.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ciera I huey yhuan I tepiton yhuan I sontera huey y çobillo I yhuan I montora yhuan I tlamimiloloni y xontera tepiton = una sierra grande y una chica, también una sontera [contera] grande, un zobillo [cepillo], una montura y una garrocha, una xontera pequeña (Cuernavaca, 1597)
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), 304–305.

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