Meanings
alternative Caxcan
- A partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.
This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe.
1911, Cyrus Thomas, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America - The language of this people.
Cazcan. — In Zacatecas and Jalisco. (Extinct.)
1903, Guy Carleton Lee, The history of North America, page 440
Origin
- Spanishcaxcanes
- azc-cazcazcan“there is not any”
- EnglishCazcan
Borrowed from Cazcan cazcan (“there is not any”) (via Spanish caxcanes), the tribe's response when the Spaniards who encountered them asked for food.
More words from azc-caz, Spanish
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