The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromHuāxyacac
- Spanish · borrowed fromOaxaca
- English todayOaxaca
Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.