The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromCuauhtēmallān
- Spanish · borrowed fromGuatemala
- English todayGuatemala
Borrowed from Spanish Guatemala (originally the name of Iximche, the location of Guatemala's first capital), from Classical Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān, from cuauhtēmalli (“woodpile”) + -tlān (“place”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.