ñuuca

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

ñuu (“polity”) +‎ ca (“metal”); calque of Nahuan, e.g. Classical Nahuatl Tepoztlān (literally “place of metal”).

Proper noun

ñuuca

1. Tepoztlán (a town in Morelos, Mexico).

References

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