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From Cupeño Cupa, the name of the Cupeño people for their homeland, or from Cupeño + -an.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cupan
Today it means: Of or pertaining to the branch of the Uto-Aztecan languages containing the Cahuilla, Cupeño and Luiseño languages of southern California. Full definition →