English
jacal
Jacal comes from Mexican Spanish jacal, and goes back to Nahuatl xacalli.
- Nahuatlmodernxacalli
- Mexican Spanishmodernjacal
- Englishearliest quotation 1930same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Nahuatlmodernxacalli
- Mexican Spanishmodernjacal
- Englishearliest quotation 1930same form
Earliest quotation: 1930, Katherine Anne Porter, María Concepción: “The leaning jacal of dried rush-withes and corn sheaves,…”
Linked words
through Nahuatl xacalli
Today it means
noun A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the southwestern US.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Nahuatl xacalli / jacal