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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Nahuatl chimalli (“shield”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈmal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: chi‧mal
Noun
chimal m (plural chimales)
- (New Mexico) shield
References
- ^ Rubén Cobos (2003 June 30) A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish: Revised and Expanded Edition, Museum of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 86: “chimal m [Col. NM Sp. chimal, fr. Nahuatl chimalli] shield.”
- ^ Simon Romero (2023 April 9) “New Mexico Is Losing a Form of Spanish Spoken Nowhere Else on Earth”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2024-08-28, retrieved April 9, 2023: “They incorporated Indigenous words like chimal (shield) from Náhuatl, chimayó (obsidian flake) from Tewa and cíbolo (buffalo) from Zuñi, as well as bisnes (business), crismes (Christmas), sanamagón (son of a gun) and many others from English.”