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alcaldeti.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alcaldeti.
Principal English Translation: 

to be or to become judge

Attestations from sources in English: 

Don Bartholome franco xochiquen yc oppa all̅d̅etic. St. Pablo ychan. = “Don Bartolomé Francisco Xochiquen, who became alcalde for the second time, from San Pablo” (Chimalpahin 2006: 70). [annals (AHT, AP, ZM), municipal council records (TA 143); time range: 1555–1690]
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), 71.

auh yn rretetoton yn icaticate sanno ompa tlacpac ynon oquicouh yn diego de leon ycuac oalcaldetic. = “And the little [guards, stops?] that also stand up above were bought by don Diego de León when he served as alcalde” (Townsend ed. 2010: 146). [annals (AHT, AP, ZM), municipal council records (TA 143); time range: 1555–1690]
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), 71.