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portales.

Orthographic Variants: 
bortales, bortalez, purtales

archways, arcaded passageways, often around the main square of towns
(a loanword from Spanish)

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portería.

a porter's lodge
(a loanword from Spanish)

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portero.

usher, doorman, guard
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Portugués.

Orthographic Variants: 
portoquez, portugues

Portuguese; a Portuguese person
(a loanword from Spanish)

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posesión.

Orthographic Variants: 
buseçio, ponsension, pozezion, pozesiun, Puzesiun

possession (usually, legal possession of land); often, the act of granting or recognizing possession, which could involve various actions that were demonstrative of that situation and their resulting documents

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postema.

an abscess
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 198–199.

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postigo.

a wicket, small door, gate, shutter
(a loanword from Spanish)

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postrero.

the last one; often used in association with the last day of the month
(a loanword from Spanish)

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potro.

a colt; a young horse; or a device made of wood to detain horses when they are being doctored
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pozo.

Orthographic Variants: 
poço, poçoco

a well, or a pit

(central Mexico, 1615)
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), 304–305.

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Predicadores.

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços

another name for the Dominican friars
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 204–205.

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pregón.

Orthographic Variants: 
pregun, prigo, brigo

a public announcement
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pregonero.

Orthographic Variants: 
pregunero

public crier, the person who makes public announcements

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presentación.

Orthographic Variants: 
Bresentacio

presentation
(a loanword from Spanish)

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presentado.

presented
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1612)
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), 228–229.

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presentaroa.

Orthographic Variants: 
preçetaroa

to present (a document in court, etc.)
(a modified loanword from Spanish)

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), 230.

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presente.

Orthographic Variants: 
prenstente

present; also, a type of mass in the Catholic church
(a loanword from Spanish)

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presidente.

Orthographic Variants: 
precitente, presitinti

president

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preso.

a prisoner
(a loanword from Spanish)

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primeramente.

first

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primicia.

first fruits of harvest
(a loanword from Spanish)

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primo.

cousin
(a loanword from Spanish)

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principal.

principal (here, a title given to an indigenous noble)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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principala.

Orthographic Variants: 
prensipala

the female equivalent of principal, an indigenous person of high status
(a loanword from Spanish)

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príncipe.

prince
(a loanword from Spanish)

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prior.

Orthographic Variants: 
priyor

prior (of a house of religious)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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), 230.

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prioste.

Orthographic Variants: 
frioste

the majordomo of a lay brotherhood or a cofradía
(a loanword from Spanish)

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privilegio.

Orthographic Variants: 
bribilegios, previlegio,

privilege; a special concession granted by the Crown; a document about privileges
(a loanword from Spanish)

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procesión.

Orthographic Variants: 
broseçio

a procession, a religious procession

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proceso.

a court case volume, the papers of a suit
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1615)
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), 302–303.

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