cahuallo

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• caballo, cahualloh, cahuayo, cauallo, cavallo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish caballo, from Latin caballus.

Noun

cahuāllo (animate, plural cahuāllotin)

1. horse
   • 1611, Pedro de Arenas, Vocabulario manual de las lenguas Castellana y Mexicana, published 1793:

     los cavallos- in cahuayotí ... al cavallo in cahuallo

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Synonyms

• mazatl

References

• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written Stanford University Press, p. 117, 212.