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ayudante.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
ayudante.
Principal English Translation:
assistant
Attestations from sources in English:
ypann ilhuitzin totlaçohnātzin asubcio omoquatlatlaque dotatzitzin: otequatlapā dodatzin sn franco oquiquatlapanque cora D: antto nio de torres yuā Joa descobal ayorate. = “On the feast day of our precious mother of the Assumption, our fathers broke each other’s heads [had a big fight]. A Franciscan father did some head-breaking. They broke the head of the parish priest don Antonio de Torres along with Juan de Escobar, [assistant]” (Townsend ed. 2010: 182). [annals (AT); time range: 1670]