Spanish Loanwords | M | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter M: Displaying 101 - 112 of 112

mortaja.

Orthographic Variants:

mortaxa

a shroud (for burial)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 40.

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mostrante.

Orthographic Variants:

mostranza

a plant found in Nahuatl-language texts; smells like mint

Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 146, and note 1, page 222.

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motquitica huino.

Orthographic Variants:

motquitica uino

pure wine, not mixed with anything else (see Molina; partly a loan word, huino = vino = wine)

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Moya de Contreras.

a Spanish surname; e.g. don Pedro Moya de Contreras, archibishop of Mexico (e.g. 1584)

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
see 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), 28–29.

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moyamancai huino.

Orthographic Variants:

moyamancai uino

a page who brings wine(?) (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, huino = vino = wine)

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mozo.

servant
(a loanword from Spanish)

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mula.

Orthographic Variants:

mola, mulla, molla

(female) mule
(a loanword from Spanish)

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mulata.

Orthographic Variants:

mulatati

a woman of mixed European and African heritage
(a loanword from Spanish)

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mulato.

Orthographic Variants:

molato, mollatu

a mulatto, a person of mixed European and African heritage (see attestations)

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mundo.

world
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Muñoz Camargo.

Orthographic Variants:

Monos Camarco, Monos Gamarco

a Spanish name, but also carried by others; e.g. don Diego Muñoz Camargo (1529–1599), the author of a History of Tlaxcala; his father was a Spaniard who served with Hernando Cortés (the expedition leader against the Aztecs) and his mother was Nahua (of Tlaxcala); he served as municipal governor of Tlaxcala during some years; his son, of the same name, was municipal governor of Tlaxcala (1608–1613); the son married doña Francisca Maxixcatzin, heiress to the rulership of Ocotelolco

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 173–174.

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muy.

very
(a loanword from Spanish)

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