PIPILA

[Craig Berry]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Frances Karttunen wrote:

> The pipiltin (pi:pil-tin) were the nobility.  The placename would probably
> refer to a place with palaces.

I've always adored the nearly exact equivalence between the Nahua
'pipiltin' = sons (of someone important) and the Spanish 'hidalgo', a
contraction of "hijo de algo" -- the son of someone (important).

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