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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.
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Although English is a Germanic language, it, too, incorporates thousands of Latinate words that are related to words in Spanish. [3] Yet even with so many Latin cognates, only a small minority are written precisely the same in both languages.
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