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maal revés.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
maal revés.
Principal English Translation: 

left-handed

Attestations from sources in English: 

Manuel maarrabez, yeca itatah quichihchihuilih ce cuaciyah zan para ya quitequihuiz quemman quinequiyaya tlahcuiloz (Sullivan et al. 2016: 274). =Manuel is left-handed, that’s why his father made a chair just so that he can use it when he want to write. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
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), 69.

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