ñuuyusa

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

ñuu (“town”) +‎ yusa (“shield”), based on Classical Nahuatl Chīmalhuahcān (literally “place of those who have shields”).

Proper noun

ñuuyusa

1. San Vicente Chimalhuacán (a town in Ozumba, State of Mexico, Mexico)

Related terms

• ñuuyusa dzuchi

 

References

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