ñuuca
Teposcolula Mixtec
editEtymology
editñuu (“polity”) + ca (“metal”); calque of Nahuan, e.g. Classical Nahuatl Tepoztlān (literally “place of metal”).
Proper noun
editñuuca
References
edit- Reyes, Antonio de los (1593) Arte en lengua mixteca (in Spanish), Alençon: Typographie E. Renaut-De Broise, published 1889, page 92