¹ There is, of course, no intention to assume etymological kinship with the Semitic prefix ma- in spite of phonetic and semantic identity.

² Most of these place-names are now used only in speaking Otomí. The Spanish conquerors generally adopted the Aztec equivalents and these have become the official Hispano-Mexican designations of all but the smallest Otomí settlements.

³ Also the Otomí name of Taxquillo (from Aztec Tlachco 'Ball Court') in the northern extremity of the State of Hidalgo, just off the Laredo Highway.

⁴ Also the Otomi name of Actopan (from Aztec Atocpan 'Fertile Land'), south of Taxquillo, on the Laredo Highway.

⁵ Spoken by the Cora tribe inhabiting the western slope of the Sierra Madre along the eastern boundary of the State of Nayarit.

⁶ Consider what a large field such Latin words as rēs and fidēs must cover. The post-classical ‘legalitas’ had to wait for a feudal society to infuse into it the now perfectly familiar notion of ‘loyalty’.

⁷ In Italian and Spanish the meaning ‘town square', ‘market place', '(military) headquarters’ still predominates, but in French the word 'place’ has at least all the senses of the English word.

⁸ Ch'u now means ‘to dwell' in the 3rd tone and 'place’ in the 4th, but both are written with the same character, so that there can be no doubt that the tone distinction is secondary.