ñuuteyaca

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Teposcolula Mixtec[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ñuu (“polity”) +‎ teyaca (“fish”); cf. Classical Nahuatl Michhuahcān (literally “place of those who have fish”).

Proper noun[edit]

ñuuteyaca

  1. Michoacán (a state of Mexico).

References[edit]

  • Reyes, Antonio de los (1593) Arte en lengua mixteca (in Spanish), Alençon: Typographie E. Renaut-De Broise, published 1889, page 92
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