Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin


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The result was keep. John254 00:53, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin

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This is only a fraction of the Nahuatl words in Spanish, and it seems that will always be the case. To attempt to actually make a nearly-complete list is a job for dictionaries, not Wikipedia. Ptcamn (talk) 18:16, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:DICT, this would be better for Wikitionary.--Finalnight (talk) 18:20, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, but the intro needs work. Also, I would do away with the proper names, as the list is self-admittedly far from exhaustive and beside the point anyway. This has some potential. --Blanchardb- Me • MyEars • MyMouth -timed 19:18, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Articles about the roots of any language are encyclopedic. As with Spanish words of Arabic origin, words that came into the language from the pre-Columbian language of Mexico can be an appropriate subject of an article.  Some common English words are of Nahuatl origin, including "chocolate" and "potato" and "axolotl".
 * A prose article about Spanish borrowing of Nahuatl words, explaining in words how and when they were borrowed, how they were adapted into Spanish, their semantic fields, etc., would be appropriate for an encyclopedia. But this is not an encyclopedia article, this is a wordlist.
 * I appreciate the nominator's link to an online Nahuatl-Spanish dictionary, though I would comment that this doesn't mean that all the words in that dictionary have become part of Spanish vocabulary.  I agree that the list should be limited to commonly used words.  Mandsford (talk) 21:19, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * That's not a Nahuatl-Spanish dictionary, it's a dictionary of Nahuatl loanwords in Spanish. --Ptcamn (talk) 21:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a Nahuatl-Spanish dictionary, but I don't think it's a list of loanwords either. It looks more like a list of mostly obscure terms that have to be explained, at length, in Spanish.  Besides, the Spanish conquerors didn't wait for the Aztecs to loan them anything :) Mandsford (talk) 18:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep all the language word origin and etymology articles are useful and notable and educational.Myheartinchile (talk) 22:41, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  23:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Etymologies are dictionary articles.  Wordlists are encyclopedic.  Ford MF (talk) 00:08, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. Discussion of linguistic origins is an encyclopedic theme. That a list is incomplete is no reason to delete it. Dimadick (talk) 12:49, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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