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Cazcan

Cazcan proper noun: a partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.

cazcan: a partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico
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Proper noun

Cazcan

  1. A partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.
    • This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe.1911, Cyrus Thomas, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America
  2. The language of this people.
    • Cazcan. — In Zacatecas and Jalisco. (Extinct.)1903, Guy Carleton Lee, The history of North America, page 440

Forms of Cazcan

alternative formCaxcan

Origin of Cazcan

Borrowed from Cazcan cazcan (“there is not any”) (via Spanish caxcanes), the tribe's response when the Spaniards who encountered them asked for food.

Questions about Cazcan

What does Cazcan mean?
Cazcan means a partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.
What part of speech is Cazcan?
Cazcan is a proper noun.

Words near Cazcan in the dictionary

  1. Cazarezes
  2. cazas
  3. Cazaux
  4. Cazavet
  5. Cazayoux
  6. Cazcan
  7. caze
  8. Cazeau
  9. Cazeaus
  10. cazee
  11. cazees

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