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a black person or other foreigner (see Molina) {CN}

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ayaquimati

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a black man or black woman; someone of African heritage (see Molina) {CN}

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cacatzac

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Spaniards

(a loanword from Spanish, rooted in the place of origin, Castilla) {CN}

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castilteca

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a person with (theoretically) one-quarter indigenous heritage, three-quarters Spanish; sometimes translated as a “quadroon; “ the female version is castiza
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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castizo

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in Spanish, or more literally, in Castilian

(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized) {CN}

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caxtilcopa

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Castile, or Spain

(a loanword from the Spanish, Castilla, Nahuatlized) {CN}

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Caxtillan

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people from Castile (Castilla), i.e. Spaniards

(includes a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized) {CN}

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caxtillan tlaca

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Spaniards, literally Castillians

(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized) {CN}

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caxtilteca

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Spaniard
(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized)

[Fuente: 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), 213.] {CN}

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caxtiltecatl

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an ethnic group, enemies of the Mexica

[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, 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), 53.] {CN}

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Cempoalteca

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the Chichimecs, a non-sedentary people of the North; sometimes also called Teochichimeca; referenced as the ancestors of the Mexica

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
[Fuente: 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 Anton Mui±on Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 106–109.] {CN}

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Chichimeca

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a person of mixed ethnic heritage; or a Chinese person

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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chino

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a runaway slave (see attestations)

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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cimarron

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resident of Coatlan (see Karttunen); plural: Coateca {CN}

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Coatecatl

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an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico

(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.] {CN}

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Cocolca

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a very russet-colored or dark-skinned man (see Molina) {CN}

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cozpol

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an American-born Spaniard

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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criollo

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the people of the Huaxteca

[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, 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), 34.] {CN}

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cuexteca

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a Spaniard (male)
 (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
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espai±ol

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a Spanish-born Spaniard in the Americas; increasingly, a derogatory term {CN}

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gachupi­n

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a Dutch person

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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holandes

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an indigenous person (noun); indigenous (adjective)

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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indio

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English; or, an English person

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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ingles

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24
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someone from Itztapalapan (today, Iztapalapa) (see Karttunen) {CN}

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Itztapalapanecatl

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something gray, dark, swarthy, someone with a black face (see Karttunen) {CN}

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ixcapotztic

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dark or black in complexion (see Molina) {CN}

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Latin

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

28
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indigenous Mexican (see Karttunen) {CN}

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macehualtlacatl

29
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an ethnic group, enemies of the Mexica

[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, 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), 53.] {CN}

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a person of mixed heritage, European and indigenous; the female version is mestiza
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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the people of Mexico City, the Mexica (see attestations) {CN}

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a Moor; or, in Mexico, a person of mixed heritage, part African
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

33
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Moor(s), North African muslim(s) {CN}

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a mulatto, a person of mixed European and African heritage

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

35
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a person native to a certain place, an indigenous person (noun); indigenous (adjective)
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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black, the color; or, a black person, a person of African heritage
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

37
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here, around here (see Molina and Karttunen); local, indigenous {CN}

38
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the residents here; i.e. the indigenous people (see attestations)

(Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Luis Reyes Garci­a, “Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, ai±o de 1559, “ Estudios de Cultura Ni¡huatl 10 (1972), 312–313.] {CN}

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nican chaneque

39
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people from here, local people, indigenous people, native people (see attestations) (singular: nican tlacatl; we people here: nican titlaca) {CN}

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nican tlaca

40
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the language of the Toltecs, according to the Florentine Codex; also, the name for an ethnicity

[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 – The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 170.] {CN}

41
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the first leader of the Otomi­

[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 – The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 177.] {CN}

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Portuguese; a Portuguese person

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico

(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.] {CN}

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Quiyahuizteca

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a Roman, someone from Rome; or, Roman (adjective)

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

45
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an ethnic group known as skilled shooters of arrows; a semi-sedentary people related to the Teochichimeca

[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 – The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 171.] {CN}

46
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a person from Tenochtitlan (see Karttunen); a resident of Tenochtitlan; plural: Tenochca {CN}

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Tenochcatl

47
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divine Chichimecs, Mexica ancestors (see attestations) {CN}

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Teochichimeca

48
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the Tepanecs; arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries; their leader, Acolnahuacatl, took over leadership of Azcapotzalco; their subsequent leader Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco ruled at the height of their influence, especially extending it over such places as the Valley of Toluca and in Morelos (see attestations) {CN}

49
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the various peoples (see attestations); or, strangers, foreigners who now live among the locals (see Molina) {CN}

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tlaca nepapantin

50
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inhabitant of Tlatelolco (plural: Tlatelolca)

[Fuente: 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), 238.] {CN}

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Tlatelolcatl

51
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to blacken

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagiºn in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
[Fuente: 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 Anton Mui±on Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 140–141.] {CN}

52
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black, the color; or, a black person, a person of African heritage; to specify a black woman, this word could be combined with cihuatl {CN}

53
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blackness (see attestations) {CN}

54
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a Tolteca Chichimeca who settled in Tula with three other Tolteca Chichimecas and four Nonoalca Chichimecas, according to the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca or Anales de Cuauhtinchan (central Mexico, sixteenth century)

[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

A

Tololohuitzin

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an ethnic group

(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 141.] {CN}

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Tolteca Chichimeca

56
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yellow hair {CN}

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tzoncocoztli

57
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an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico

(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.] {CN}

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an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico

(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.] {CN}

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