cahuallo

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish caballo, from Latin caballus.

Noun

cahuāllo (animate, plural cahuāllotin)

  1. horse
    • 1611, Pedro de Arenas, Vocabulario manual de las lenguas Castellana y Mexicana, published 1793:
      los cavallos- in cahuayotí ... al cavallo in cahuallo
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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References

  • Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written Stanford University Press, p. 117, 212.