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Cazcan
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cazcan
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right|thumb|Cazcan (right) and Spanish(bottom left) troops fighting.
Alternative forms
Caxcan
Etymology
Borrowed from en azc-caz cazcan there is not any (via en es caxcanes), the tribe's response when the Spaniards who encountered them asked for food.
Proper noun
A partly nomadic indigenous people of en Mexico.
en Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America Cyrus Thomas 1911 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=NeZL07LlBpsC&dq=%22Cazcan%22&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=%22Cazcan%22&f=false
The language of this people.
en The history of North America Guy Carleton Lee 440 Cazcan. — In Zacatecas and Jalisco. (Extinct.) https://books.google.com/books?id=K5MZAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Cazcan%22&pg=PA440#v=onepage&q=%22Cazcan%22&f=false 1903
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