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Juxtlahuaca

proper noun

Juxtlahuaca (a town in Oaxaca, Mexico); Juxtlahuaca (a municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico); Juxtlahuaca (a district of Oaxaca, Mexico)

Synonyms: Santiago Juxtlahuaca

Borrowed from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Classical Nahuatl xihuitl (“year”) + ixtlāhuacan (“plain”)), calqued from a Mixtec language (equivalent to Proto-Mixtec *yosoʔ (“plain”) + *kʷìyà (“year”)).

Juxtlahuaca — Spanish Dictionary | Passage