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animal.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
animal.
Principal English Translation: 

animal

Attestations from sources in English: 

Lazoz tichuicaz huan tenazaz para tiquilpiz animalez (2012-Tep). =You will take rope and pliers to tie up the animals. [oral account (2012-Tep); time range: 2012]
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), 81.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.