Etymology

Juxtlahuaca

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Today it means: A town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Full definition →

Spanish Juxtlahuaca ← Nahuan ← Mixtec
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The story

  1. Mixtec · derived from
  2. Nahuan · derived from
  3. Spanish · borrowed fromJuxtlahuaca
  4. English todayJuxtlahuaca

Borrowed from Spanish Juxtlahuaca, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl xiuh- (“year”) + ixtlāhuacan (“plain”)), calqued from a Mixtec language (equivalent to Proto-Mixtec *yosoʔ (“plain”) + *kʷìyà (“year”)).

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