Spanish Loanwords | M

the head of the table (partly a loanword from Spanish, mesa, table; see Molina)

an inn, a place of lodging for travelers
(a loanword from Spanish)

a metaphor
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 1.

while, during, at the same time
(a loanword from Spanish)

one thousand
(a loanword from Spanish)

"1576 nican ipan ixhuitl yn omochiuh [....] cocoliztli yc opa yn opeuhqui ypā [.....] yn omomiquili macehualtzintli ome milones .... (p. 808)" = 1576. In this year a [....] sickness broke out for the second time. It began in [....]; two million commoners died." (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 2, 1524–1674)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 3, p. 53, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

mine worker; or mine owner
(a loanword from Spanish)

myrrh
(a loanword from Spanish)

(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, 146–147.

a missal (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, combined with amoxtli, Nahuatl for book)