Copanaguastla

English

Alternative forms

• Copanabastla (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Copanaguastla, from a Nahuan language. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Proper noun

Copanaguastla

1. A village in Chiapas, Mexico
   • 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, London: R. Cotes, page 98:

     The head Towne where the Priory ſtands, is called Copanabaſtla, conſiſting of above eight hundred Indian inhabitants.