English Explanatory Dictionary

Totonicapán

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city in Guatemala.
  2. A department of Guatemala.

Word forms

Totonicapán

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Totonicapán, from a Nahuan language (equivalent to Pipil tutūnik (“hot”) + āpan (“river”)); calqued from K'iche' Chuwiʼ Meqʼinaʼ (“above the hot water”) or Kaqchikel Chimekʼenyaʼ (“place of hot water”).

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