Etymology

Tlaxcala

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Today it means: An indigenous Mesoamerican polity in what is now Mexico. Full definition →

Spanish Tlaxcala ← Classical Nahuatl Tlaxcallān
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The story

  1. Classical Nahuatl · derived fromTlaxcallān
  2. Spanish · borrowed fromTlaxcala
  3. English todayTlaxcala

Borrowed from Spanish Tlaxcala, from Classical Nahuatl Tlaxcallān.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.