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Spanish Loanwords

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Displaying 31 - 60 of 1464

aceituna.

Orthographic Variants: 
azetonas, axitonax

olive(s)

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aceitunascuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
azetonasquahuitl

olive tree

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actas.

minutes, proceedings of some constituted body (a word probably not used by sixteenth-century Tlaxcalans) (a loanword from Spanish)
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

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acto.

decree

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Acuario.

Orthographic Variants: 
aquario, qualliyos, aquaioyos, aquariyos

Aquarius, a sign of the zodiac; a loanword from Latin, that entered Nahuatl through Spanish

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acuerdo.

Orthographic Variants: 
acuerto

Real Acuerdo, the official body composed of the Viceroy and the officers of the real Audiencia court; sessions of this legal body (See Brylak et al)

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adagio.

adage

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Adan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Adam

a specific reference to the Adam of the Adam and Eve story of Christianity
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 17.

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aderezar.

decorating

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adiós

goodbye

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adoración latría.

worshipful adoration

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adorar.

Orthographic Variants: 
adoraroa

to carry out worship

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Adviento.

Advent

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agnus dei.

Orthographic Variants: 
acnos tey

Lamb of God
(a phrase from Latin)

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agostadero.

summer pastures

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agostar.

summer pasturing

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agosto.

Orthographic Variants: 
agusto, augustus, augusto, augustos

August, the month (see attestations)

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aguinaldo.

masses devoted to the Virgin Mary during the nine days preceding Christmas

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aguja.

needle

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agustino de misa.

ordained Augustinian friar

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agustino.

Augustinian friar

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ahora.

now

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ahorita de/que

now that

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ajonjolí.

a sesame dish

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ajonjolícuahuitl.

sesame plant

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ajonjolíyolli.

sesame seeds

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ajosnamaca.

to sell garlic

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ajostoca.

to plant garlic

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al puerto.

at the port

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al revés.

left hand

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