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Sandoval.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Sandoval.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname; taken by indigenous people in the sixteenth century and onward

Orthographic Variants: 
Sanctoval, Sanctoual
Attestations from sources in English: 

niz cate ytech pohui pablo de sanctoual yacapitlan chināpan; pablo de sanctoval (sixteenth-century Yecapixtla, Morelos)
Rosa María Hernández de Zamora, "El Programa Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO: México en la Memoria del Mundo," Legajos: Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación 10 (oct.–dic. 2011), 17–22. See the sample page from the Códice del Marquesado del Valle, p. 21; paleography by Stephanie Wood. Lower down, the town name is given as yacapichtlan.