ahuacatl = avocado
coyotl = coyote
tomatl = tomato
xocolatl = chocolate (remember x is pronounced "ch")
plus all the place names in Mexico like Popocapetl and Tlaxcala
(Holy Toluca!)
These words came from the language of the Aztecs (Nahuatl) to Spanish as the
Conquistadores used their words for the things they found in New Spain.
and then from Spanish to English.
I also find it hilarious that they had their own expressions and memes,
(according to this great website on words borrowed from Nahuatl
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower2/qquetzal.html
"ayoppa in piltihua, ayoppa in tlacatihua" means precisely: YOLO (you live only once)
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