Spanish
adjective
of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
pre-Spanish
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a word derived from
Spanish.
Example Sentences
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He has since experimented with dishes from the Philippines’ pre-Spanish days, like rice-based desserts, or kakanin in Tagalog.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2023
In pre-Spanish times the Xolos were important to Mexican Indians in many different ways.
From Time Magazine Archive
What the archeologists don't know about pre-Spanish America dims about 20 centuries of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
This pre-Spanish custom in Tusayan was discovered in my excavations at Awatobi, but the prayer-sticks from that place were fragmentary as compared with the almost perfect pahos from Sikyatki.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
We must remember, however, that the Filipino before the arrival of the Spaniard had a written language, and even in pre-Spanish times there must have been instruction given to the child.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
