Ixcuintepec

Meaning

Proper Noun

• town Oaxaca (state) Mexico (country).
• A municipality of Oaxaca whose municipal seat is the town of the same name.

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish Ixcuintepec, from a language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl Itzcuintepēc, from itzcuintli + tepētl), calqued from a Mixe language (e.g. Totontepec Mixe Oc Cuvajcm, from oc + cuvajc).