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Meaning of malintzin




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

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It is a word of Nahuatl origin that means grass. It was also a way of calling La Malinche, Malinalli or Doña Marina, the indigenous woman who served as translator. advisor and intermediary to Hernán Cortés during the Conquest of Mexico. Another name she received was Tenepal, which in Nahuatl means she who speaks with vivacity.

  



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