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Highland Puebla Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish almú, variant of Spanish almud, from Andalusian Arabic المُدّ (almúdd), from Arabic مُدّ (mudd), from Latin modius.
Compare Tetelcingo Nahuatl almu.
Noun
almo̱n
- Almud, a unit of volume.
References
- Key, Harold, Ritchie de Key, Mary (1953) Vocabulario mejicano de la Sierra de Zacapoaxtla, Puebla, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 107