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• jacal — ► sustantivo masculino México, Venezuela Choza o casa humilde. * * * jacal (del nahua «xacalli», casa de adobes; Hispam.) m. *Choza o casa miserable. * * * jacal. (Del nahua xacalli). m. Hond. y Méx. Especie de choza …   Enciclopedia Universal

• Jacal — Ja*cal (h[aum]*k[aum]l ; 239), n. [Amer. Sp., fr. Mex. xacalli.] In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas — This is a list of English language words borrowed from indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. † indicates a link to a definition of the word. It does not cover… …   Wikipedia

• List of English words of Spanish origin — This is a list of English language words whose origin can be traced to the Spanish language as Spanish loan words . Many of them are identical in other Romance languages (mainly Portuguese), but their ultimate origin is from Spanish.;abaca : via… …   Wikipedia

• Shack — A shack is a type of small house that is in disrepair. The word may derive from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word xacalli or adobe house by way of Mexican Spanish xacal / jacal , which has the same meaning as shack… …   Wikipedia

• Jacaltenango — Coordenadas: 15°40′N 91°42′O / 15.667, 91.7 Jacaltenango es una ciudad situada en el altiplano occidental de Guatemala, a 385 kilómetros de la ciudad de Guatemala, en el …   Wikipedia Español

• shack — shack1 [ʃæk] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from shackly likely to fall down (19 20 centuries), or from Mexican Spanish jacal small building , from Nahuatl xacalli] a small building that has not been built very well ▪ a tin shack shack 2… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• shack — (n.) 1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mex.Sp. jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli wooden hut. Or perhaps a back formation from dialectal English shackly shaky, rickety (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal …   Etymology dictionary

• jacal — (Del nahua xacalli). m. Hond. y Méx. Especie de choza …   Diccionario de la lengua española

• jacal — ☆ jacal [hä käl′ ] n. pl. jacales [häkä′lās] or jacals [AmSp < Nahuatl xacalli, contr. < xamitl calli, adobe house] a hut in Mexico and the Southwest, with walls of close set wooden stakes plastered with mud and roofed with straw, rushes,… …   English World dictionary

• shack — ☆ shack [shak ] n. [< ? AmSp jacal < Nahuatl xacalli, wooden hut] a small house or cabin that is crudely built and furnished; shanty shack up 1. Slang to live or room ( in a certain place) 2. to live (with one s mistress or paramour) …   English World dictionary