ñuuteyaca

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

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

Proper noun

ñuuteyaca

1. 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