English
Zanatepec
Zanatepec comes from Spanish Zanatepec.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentZanatepec
- Englishearliest quotation 1648same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentZanatepec
- Englishearliest quotation 1648same form
Earliest quotation: 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or: “In Sanatepeque wee met with a Frier who gave…”
The story
Borrowed from Spanish Zanatepec, from a Nahuan language, equivalent to Classical Nahuatl *Tzanatepēc (literally “grackle mountain”).
Every English word from Spanish Zanatepec
Today it means
name A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish Zanatepec / Zanatepec