tejón

European badger (Meles meles); American badger (Taxidea taxus); white-nosed coati (Nasua narica); raccoon (Procyon lotor); northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana)

Inherited from Old Spanish texón, from Late Latin taxonem, from a Germanic language, from Frankish *þahs, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz. Compare German Dachs and Dutch das.

a gold plate or ingot

Etymology tree Latin taxus Spanish tejo Spanish -ón Spanish tejón From tejo (“tile, plate”) + -ón (augmentative suffix).