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Letter T: Displaying 1 - 20 of 77

tabla.

a wooden board
(a loanword from Spanish)

(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 198–198.

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tafetán.

Orthographic Variants: 
tapetan, tafedan, tabetan

taffeta (a type of fabric)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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tambor.

Orthographic Variants: 
tabul

a drum
(a loanword from Spanish)

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tariana.

a fife, a musical instrument (see attestations)

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tasación.

Orthographic Variants: 
tanxacio, tasancio

tribute assessment, assignment of quotas that are being required

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Tauro.

Orthographic Variants: 
taolloes, taollos

Taurus, a sign of the zodiac; a loanword from Latin, that entered Spanish, and then Nahuatl
See Lori Boornazian Diel, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late-Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018), 172.

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taza.

Orthographic Variants: 
taça, tanza

a cup; see tāçah (a loanword from Spanish)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 232.

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teanima.

someone's soul
(contains a loanword from Spanish)

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 247.

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teatinos.

Orthographic Variants: 
tiatinos, deatinostin

a "revival" order, often connected with Jesuits in name if not in fact; had some missions
(a loanword from Spanish)

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temachti.

a teacher

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tempo.

Orthographic Variants: 
tienpos, dienpo

tempo (musical term)(this is a loanword from Latin and Spanish) (see attestations)

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tenaza.

pliers, nippers, clamp(s)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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teniente.

lieutenant, deputy; in Tlaxcala, a law officer in outlying districts outranking a constable (alguacil) or merino
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

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teocuitla corona.

a golden crown (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, corona, crown)

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teología.

Orthographic Variants: 
theologia

theology
(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), 206–207.

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teotl Dios.

divinity, the sacred combined with the Spanish loanword, Dios (God), equates to the Christian god
Stafford Poole, C.M., "Christian Terms in Nahuatl," n.p., n.d.

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tepoz cuarto.

Orthographic Variants: 
tepuz quarto, tepuzquarto, tepoz quarto

a quarter, a known type of money in the sixteenth century (see Molina) (partly a loanword from Spanish)

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tercero.

the third
(a loanword from Spanish)

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tercio.

one third
(a loanword from Spanish)

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terciopelo.

velvet (see attestations)

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