Etlatongo

Meaning

Proper Noun

• town Oaxaca (state) Mexico (country).
• municipality Oaxaca (state) Mexico (country).

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish Etlatongo, from a language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl), a calque from a Mixtec language (cf. Teposcolula Mixtec Yucunduchi). The diminutive suffix -tōnco was added to distinguish it from Etlān.