Cazcan
See also: cazcan
English
Cazcan (right) and Spanish(bottom left) troops fighting.
Alternative forms
- Caxcan
Etymology
Borrowed from Cazcan cazcan (“there is not any”) (via Spanish caxcanes), the tribe's response when the Spaniards who encountered them asked for food.
Proper noun
Cazcan
- A partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.
- 1911, Cyrus Thomas, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America:
- 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.
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- The language of this people.
- 1903, Guy Carleton Lee, The history of North America, page 440:
- Cazcan. — In Zacatecas and Jalisco. (Extinct.)
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