The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromteocintli
- Spanish · derived fromteocinte
- French · borrowed fromtéosinte
- English todayteosinte
From French téosinte, from Spanish teocinte, from Classical Nahuatl teocintli, apparently from teōtl (“god”) + cintli (“dried maize”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.