The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromxoconōchtli“sour prickly-pear”
- Spanish · borrowed fromxoconostle
- English todayxoconostle
From Spanish xoconostle, from Classical Nahuatl xoconōchtli (“sour prickly-pear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.