The story
- Nahuan · derived from
- Spanish · borrowed fromIxcuintepec
- English todayIxcuintepec
Borrowed from Spanish Ixcuintepec, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Itzcuintepēc, from itzcuintli (“dog”) + tepētl (“mountain”) + -c (locative suffix)), calqued from a Mixe language (e.g. Totontepec Mixe Oc Cuvajcm, from oc (“dog”) + cuvajc (“head”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.