Spanish Loanwords

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a ring or rings, such as those worn on the finger(s) (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 2.

Orthographic Variants: 
-anima, animan, animas, animasmeh

soul (this word is usually seen possessed in Nahuatl) (see Molina and attestations)

the soul of a dead person.
Orthographic Variants: 
ánimasme, animasmeh

brotherhood of the Holy Souls of Purgatory

year (see Lockhart and attestations)

before, in front of (an official) (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
anzaron

a metal tool for working the soil, often equated with tlaltepoztli (see attestations)

fish hook

fish-hook.

to appear, as in a saint making an apparition to the faithful (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
apatzcaluino

piquette, or second wine (partially a loanword from Spanish, vino, wine; see Molina)

a legal appeal (see Molina)

a legal appeal (see attestations, forthcoming)

to appeal something in the courts (see attestations)

hardly, just, only

a proxy (a person in charge of carrying out a legal transaction or making a document on behalf of another person); someone legally empowered, a legal representative (see attestations)

to make s.o. hurry up.
a demanding, rude person.

a chamber, a room in a house (see attestations)

an apostle (central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 136–137.

demanding or rude person