chimal

See also: Chimal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Nahuatl chimalli (“shield”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈmal/ [t͡ʃiˈmal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: chi‧mal

Noun

chimal m (plural chimales)

  1. (New Mexico) shield

References

  1. ^ Rubén Cobos (30 June 2003) A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish: Revised and Expanded Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 86: “chimal m [Col. NM Sp. chimal, fr. Nahuatl chimalli] shield.”
  2. ^ Simon Romero (9 April 2023) “New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2024, retrieved 9 April 2023: “They incorporated Indigenous words like chimal (shield) from Náhuatl, chimayó (obsidian flake) from Tewa and cíbolo (buffalo) from Zuñi, as well as bisnes (business), crismes (Christmas), sanamagón (son of a gun) and many others from English.”
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