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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.
The corresponding Spanish word to a flat top mountain is meseta mescal from Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl mexcalli mesquite from Mexican Spanish mezquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl mestizo from mestizo "racially mixed" < latin mixticius "mixed" or "mongrel", in Spanish, refers to a person of mixed European and Native American descent. mojito
何とか nantoka and 何とやら nantoyara are sometimes used when purposefully omitting a word from a saying (e.g. 何とかも木から落ちる nantoka mo ki kara ochiru instead of 猿も木から落ちる saru mo ki kara ochiru, meaning "even monkeys fall from trees"; the word 猿 saru meaning "monkey" has been replaced with 何とか ...
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a Spanish meat made from unweaned lambs (roast lechazo-lambs-). Very typical of Valladolid. Lechazo de Castilla y León. Lomo embuchado: everywhere meat a cured meat made from a pork tenderloin. In its essentials, it is the same as Cecina, the Spanish air dried cured smoked Beef tenderloin Longaniza: everywhere sausage
From a Taino compound word ("Jiba" meaning mountain or forest, and "iro" meaning man or men) [19] though commonly mistaken for originating from the Arabic (Mofarite Arabic: جبري , romanized: Jabre), in the Mofarite related Ethiopian Semitic languages ገበሬ, romanized: Gabre). jumeta Drunk [3] Cold cherry limber lambeojo
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A number of words widely used in Nicaragua which have Nahuatl, Chibcha or other native origins, in particular names for flora, fauna and toponyms. Some of these words are used in most, or all, Spanish-speaking countries, like chocolate and aguacate ("avocado"). For a more complete list, see List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin. Certain words ...