pa̱lej

Mecayapan Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish padre (“father”), from Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːleh/

Noun

pa̱lej

1. priest

References

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 107, 226, 259