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  2. List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Valediction - Wikipedia

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    A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.

  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    raccoonny (talk · contribs) BAHons in Linguistics, Spanish, Polish @ University of Toronto. Native Canadian English, intermediate-to-advanced Spanish and Polish. Some Canadian French, Dutch, and Portuguese. Kartvelian, Iroquoian, and Germanic languages. Phonology, historical linguistics, variationalist sociolinguistics.

  5. List of Puerto Rican slang words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    From standard Spanish acicalado bembé a big party. [3] [6] bichote Important person. From English big shot. [7] birras Beer. [3] bochinche gossip [8] boricua The name given to Puerto Rico people by Puerto Ricans. [3] bregar To work on a task, to do something with effort and dedication. [9] broki brother or friend. [5] cafre a lowlife.

  6. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan , Aymara , Carib , Mayan , Nahuatl , Quechua , Taíno , Tarahumara , Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).

  7. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    To determine which words are the most common, researchers create a database of all the words found in the corpus, and categorise them based on the context in which they are used. The first table lists the 100 most common word forms from the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA), a text corpus compiled by the Real Academia Española (RAE).

  8. Uruguayan Spanish - Wikipedia

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    However in Uruguayan Spanish, pronto instead means "ready", the same meaning as pronto in Italian. [5] Uruguayan Spanish was also influenced by several native languages. For instance the Uruguayan word pororó meaning "popcorn" originating from the Tupian language Guaraní. Another examples is the word gurí/gurises meaning "kid(s)" which ...

  9. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...