escuintenango

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"After the week was ended my French friend the Prior conducted mee to Izquintenango, to ſee mee well furniſhed up the Mountaines of Cuchumatlanes. This Towne (as I have formerly obſerved) ſtandeth almoſt at the end of the Valley of Copanabaſtla, and within two leagues of the Cuchumatlanes."

Borrowed from Spanish Escuintenango, from a Nahuan language; literally "dog city" (cf. Classical Nahuatl itzcuintli (“dog”)).

Izquintenango (alternative, obsolete)

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