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Spanish Loanwords

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sobrepelliz.

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços

a surplice
(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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sobrino. / sobrina.

Orthographic Variants: 
subrino, çobrino, suprina

nephew, niece
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sol.

a musical note

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solar.

Orthographic Variants: 
xolal, xollal, jular, xolar, jolar, jolal, sullar, isolaryo, ijolaryo, xolal tlalli, solarto, zulal, tzolal, çolar, sularito

a house lot (a loanword from Spanish); see also our entries for xolal

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soldado.

Orthographic Variants: 
suldadoztin, suldadostin, jordadosme, sordado, Joldadostin, soldadostin, surdadosme, surdatosme

soldier (see attestations)

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soledad.

solitude; or a reference to Mary of Solitude, the Virgin Mary
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sombrero.

Orthographic Variants: 
sonbrero, somblero

a large hat
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sotanilla.

a small cassock
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Soto.

a name, a Spanish surname; it was also taken by indigenous people; e.g. don Lucas de Soto of Tetzcoco, possibly a son of Nezahualpilli

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
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, 202–203.

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Sotomayor.

a Spanish surname, also taken by indigenous people; e.g. don Pedro de Sotomayor was the indigenous governor of Xochimilco in 1564

(ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 226–227.

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su.

his, her, their
(a loanword from Spanish)

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suelo.

floor(s), flooring, pavement (interior); the ground, soil, earth, surface (exterior)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sujeto.

term used by Spaniards for outlying indigenous entities in the belief that they were ruled from a dominant center like the Spanish hamlets
(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), 154.

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Sumo Pontífice.

the High Pontiff (title for the Pope) (a loanword from Spanish)

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sur.

south (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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surco.

Orthographic Variants: 
surcu, xolco, çorco, çorquito

furrow, an agricultural row
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sustentaroa.

to sustain, keep up
(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), 232.

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tabla.

a wooden board
(a loanword from Spanish)

(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 198–198.

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tafetán.

Orthographic Variants: 
tapetan, tafedan, tabetan

taffeta (a type of fabric)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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tambor.

Orthographic Variants: 
tabul, tampul

a drum; this loanword could refer to an Indigenous drum or an imported European drum (SW)

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tariana.

a fife, a musical instrument (see attestations)

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tasación.

Orthographic Variants: 
tanxacio, tasancio

tribute assessment, assignment of quotas that are being required

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Tauro.

Orthographic Variants: 
taolloes, taollos

Taurus, a sign of the zodiac; a loanword from Latin, that entered Spanish, and then Nahuatl
See Lori Boornazian Diel, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late-Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018), 172.

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taza.

Orthographic Variants: 
taça, tanza

a cup; see tāçah (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), 232.

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teanima.

someone's soul
(contains a loanword from Spanish)

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 247.

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teatinos.

Orthographic Variants: 
tiatinos, deatinostin

a "revival" order, often connected with Jesuits in name if not in fact; had some missions
(a loanword from Spanish)

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temachti.

a teacher

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tempo.

Orthographic Variants: 
tienpos, dienpo

tempo (musical term)(this is a loanword from Latin and Spanish) (see attestations)

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tenaza.

pliers, nippers, clamp(s)

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teniente.

lieutenant, deputy; in Tlaxcala, a law officer in outlying districts outranking a constable (alguacil) or merino
(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), 154.

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