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Spanish Loanwords

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a painting about a ruler or rulership; perhaps a pictorial about a cacicazgo; partially a loanword from Spanish ("pintura," painting)

the people of (or from) Tlaxcala (Tlaxcallan); plural of Tlaxcaltecatl (see attestations)

to belong to
(a loan verb from Spanish, tocar)

a bacon seller; butcher
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocino chiauacayotl

bacon fat (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)

to apply bacon (hot fat?) on a slave (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)

a ham; or, the thigh of a pig (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocinouia

to apply bacon (hot bacon fat?) to another person (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)

Orthographic Variants: 
tomin, tomines, domin, domines, tepoztomines, tomi

a coin, worth one real (8 tomines or reales = one peso); or, more generally, coins or money

a tone
(a loanword from Spanish)

dapple
(a loanword from Spanish)

a person who makes turned pieces of wood, such as posts for a wooden railing
(a loanword from Spanish)

a lathe; or, an iron tool for reeling or spinning silk

Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 428–429; and, Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 152.

a lathe for pressing something (see Molina); note that "torno" (lathe or perhaps some other type of metal tool) is a loanword from Spanish

bull
(a loanword from Spanish)

a Spanish surname; e.g. fray Juan de Torquemada was the Franciscan friar who wrote the Monarquia indiana, which was published in Seville in 1615; he apparently drew from codices for this monumental work about the indigenous peoples of (primarily) central Mexico

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.

tower
(a loanword from Spanish)

tortilla (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), 240.

Orthographic Variants: 
doston

half a peso, a coin
(a loanword from Spanish)

don Juan de Tovar was the son of don Miguel de Alvarado Oquiztzin; don Juan worked at the main friary of the Franciscans in Mexico City; his mother was a resident of Santa María Cuepopan and she was a merchant's daughter; this don Juan would have two daughters, doña María Egipciaca (she married a Spaniard named Blas Vásquez, a merchant in San Juan Ohtlipan) and doña Bárbara (who married her uncle, don Antonio Valeriano, governor and judge in Azcapotzalco and had a son don Nicolás Valeriano).
(central Mexico, 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, 102–103.

Juan de Tovar was a "celebrated Jesuit nahuatlato"
See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 23.

traitor
(a loanword from Spanish)

sugar mill
(a loanword from Spanish)

a copy or a translation of a document, such as a bill of sale or a testament
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
treita

thirty

Orthographic Variants: 
tribotario

tribute payer
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
triboton, triboto

tributes, taxes
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
terico, trico

wheat

trinity
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços

an group of friars linked to the Franciscans; also called the Redemption of Captives
(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.

a wind instrument
(a loanword from Spanish)