Spanish Loanwords | C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 281 - 290 of 290

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
icueta, cueta

account (see attestations)

s.o.’s business or affairs.

Rosary beads (see attestations)

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.

kwiːtiɑː

to know, or to confess someone, or to know the crime that person committed

to blame
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
gora, cora

curate
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
costodia

monstrance of the Holy Sacrament (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)