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Letter P: Displaying 41 - 60 of 137

peón.

a day laborer

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pera.

pear (the fruit); pear tree; possible combined with -titlan to form a placename?

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Peralta.

Orthographic Variants: 
Perarta

a Spanish last name, e.g. don Gastón Peralta, viceroy

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), 166–167.

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perdón.

pardon
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pero.

but
(a loanword from Spanish)

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perro.

Orthographic Variants: 
pero

a dog

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Persia.

Persia, the place name; now Iran (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.

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persona.

Orthographic Variants: 
bersona, perçona, felxona, felsona, ferxona

person
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pesa.

a weight
(a loanword from Spanish)

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peso inepantla icac.

Orthographic Variants: 
peso ynepantla ycac

well balanced, as in a trustworthy scale (see Molina); contains the loanword "peso," here referring to weight

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peso iyollo.

Orthographic Variants: 
peso yyullo, peso iyullo

a trustworthy balance (see Molina)

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peso.

Orthographic Variants: 
pesu, pesus, pexo, pexus

a peso, a unit of money; weight (see attestations)

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pesohuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
pesouia, pesovia

to weigh something with weights (see Molina), a Nahuatlized Spanish loan (peso, weight)

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petición.

petition
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Petronila.

a Spanish name for a female

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piaztic campana.

a slanted bell (see Molina; partly a loanword from Spanish, campana, bell)

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pichelo.

tankard
(a loanword from Spanish)

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piedad.

Orthographic Variants: 
biedad

piety
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1613)
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), 254–255.

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piedra.

a stone
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pierna.

a measure of cloth (a loanword from Spanish); a manta or a mantilla could have varying numbers of piernas (three, four, etc.)

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