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al puerto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
al puerto.
Principal English Translation: 

at the port

Attestations from sources in English: 

çan oc otlipan quinhualcauhtiquiz yhuiantzin yatihuitze ŷ nican huitze Jabun tlaca yn ompa quinhuallehuiti Jabun. yn o yuh atenquiçaco oncan al puerto acapolco. “He left behind on the road the Japanese who were coming here and leaving Japan to come at their leisure after they had landed at the port of Acapulco” (Chimalpahin 2006: 168). [annals (AHT); time range: 1610]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 68.