The story
- Nahuan · derived from
- Spanish · borrowed fromTotonicapán
- English todayTotonicapán
Borrowed from Spanish Totonicapán, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Pipil tutūnik (“hot”) + āpan (“river”)); calqued from K'iche' Chuwiʼ Meqʼinaʼ (“above the hot water”) or Kaqchikel Chimekʼenyaʼ (“place of hot water”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.