ñuuteyaca
Teposcolula Mixtec
Etymology
ñuu (“polity”) + teyaca (“fish”); cf. Classical Nahuatl Michhuahcān (literally “place of those who have fish”).
Proper noun
ñuuteyaca
- Michoacán (a state of Mexico).
References
- Reyes, Antonio de los (1593) Arte en lengua mixteca (in Spanish), Alençon: Typographie E. Renaut-De Broise, published 1889, page 92