Spanish/English Words w/Nahuatl Origin

[John Sullivan Hendricks]

Two interesting Mexican Spanish words that are from Nahuatl
	1. chamaco(a), from ixamanca, its sprout or bud (of a plant)
	2. cuelele (with an accent over the first "e", meaning  "hurry up").  This
is very strange because it is a Spanish command with no other conjugated
forms (it doesn't come from "colar"), and it is derived from the nahuatl
"cueleh", "quickly".

	John Sullivan
	Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

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De: nahuat-l at server.umt.edu [mailto:nahuat-l at server.umt.edu]En nombre de
John F. Schwaller
Enviado el: Martes, 30 de Noviembre de 1999 09:30 a.m.
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Asunto: Re: Spanish/English Words w/Nahuatl Origin

Joe's list is a very good one.  One Spanish word missing is

tiza (chalk) from tizatl (white stone)


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