Cazcan

Cazcan (right) and Spanish(bottom left) troops fighting.

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • A partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.
  • The language of this people.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Cazcan cazcan ("there is not any") (via Spanish caxcanes), the tribe's response when the Spaniards who encountered them asked for food.

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