The story
- Mixtec · derived from
- Nahuan · derived from
- Spanish · borrowed fromXochapa
- English todayXochapa
Borrowed from Spanish Xochapa, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl xōchitl (“flower”) + āpan (“river”)), calqued from a Mixtec language, e.g. Alcozauca Mixtec I̱ta Ita (literally “flower river”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.