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This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
A piragua Spanish pronunciation: [p i ˈ ɾ a. ɣ w a] [1] is a Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert, shaped like a cone, consisting of shaved ice and covered with fruit-flavored syrup. Piraguas are sold by vendors, known as piragüeros , from small, traditionally brightly-colored pushcarts offering a variety of flavors.
Known as "sincronizadas", the Spanish word for synchronized, are two corn tortillas with a meat and cheese filling then toasted on each side until the cheese melts. "Gringas", as the slang word for people with lighter skin tones, are similar to quesadillas or sincronizadas but made with flour tortilla, hence the name.
In Spanish, it means "emerald," which is also a semi-precious stone. 41. Estefania. Estefania is a Spanish girl's name meaning "crown." The word itself conjures up images of royalty and power. 42 ...
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However, these words are not often used to refer to food except for Afrikaans in the agglutination afvalvleis (lit. "off-fall-flesh"), which does indeed mean offal. [3] For instance, the German word for offal is Innereien meaning innards and the Swedish word is inälvsmat literally meaning "inside-food".
Image credits: IsolatedPSup #3. In Spanish "constipado" means you have a cold. Spaniards have been getting massive diarrhea on top of the cold they already had in every English and French speaking ...
Pastel is the Spanish and Portuguese word for pastry, a sugary food, and is the name given to different typical dishes of various countries where those languages are spoken. In Mexico, pastel typically means cake , as with Pastel de tres leches .