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Spanish Loanwords | C / CH

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Letter C/CH: Displaying 281 - 290 of 290

cuello.

a collar (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), 214–215.

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cuenta.

Orthographic Variants:

icueta, cueta

account (see attestations)

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cuentah.

s.o.’s business or affairs.

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cuentas.

Rosary beads (see attestations)

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cuentaxtli.

Orthographic Variants:

cuenta, cuentas

beads (from the Spanish, cuentas, with the suffix -tli; suggests an early borrowing)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 122; citing Barry Sell, personal communication.

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