Etymology

Tz'utujil

Today it means: A member of a Native American people, one of the 21 Maya ethnic groups that dwell in Guatemala, primarily around Lake Atitlan. Full definition →

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The story

From Spanish, from Tz'utujil, from tz'utuj (“cornfield flower”) + -il (a suffix that indicates abstraction). Literally it means “beautiful cornfield flower”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.