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arzobispado.

Orthographic Variants: 
arҫobispado

archbishopric, the region overseen by the archbishop (central Mexico, 1613)
see: Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 264–265.

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arzobispo.

Orthographic Variants: 
arsoobispo, alsobisbon, arçobispoyotl, Arçobispos, arҫobisposme

archbishop (see attestations)

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Ascensión.

the feast day of Ascension

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asnaconetl.

donkey foal (lit. offspring of a female donkey)

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asno.

Orthographic Variants: 
axno, Asnoti, axnotzitzin

a donkey (see attestations)

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asnoconetl.

donkey foal (lit. offspring of a donkey)

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asperges.

a chant the priest says when blessing the altar and congregation with holy water (originally from Latin) (see attestations)

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astrólogo.

astrologer (see attestations)

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Asunción.

Orthographic Variants: 
Azsopcio, Assupcion, Aspsio, asupcion

the Assumption of the Virgin Mary; also, a woman's name and part of a place name, in some cases (see attestations)

the feast day of the Assumption

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atambor.

kettle drum

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ataúd.

casket, coffin; corn is sometimes added (see attestations)

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Audiencia Real tlacah.

members of the high court of New Spain

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audiencia.

Orthographic Variants: 
audensi, ahudensia, ahuatiensia, aodeçia, laodeçia

high court; or, an audience before officials; in municipal documentation, usually refers to the members of the town council in session (see attestations)

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Austria.

Austria, the place name and the family name; e.g. doña Margarita de Austria, the late spouse of the king of Spain, don Felipe III (central Mexico, 1614)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 272–273.

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auto.

an official act, a decree
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 211.

auto da fe

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autoridad.

authority

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ave.

Orthographic Variants: 
aue

hail (as in hail Mary)

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Avemaría.

Hail Mary (prayer)

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axno conetl.

the offspring of an ass, a little burro (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, asno, burro)

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ayamo hualhui in españoles.

before the Spaniards came, i.e. in the autonomous era, before European colonization; partly a loanword (see attestations)

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