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Escuintenango
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English
Alternative forms
en Izquintenango obsolete
Etymology
Borrowed from en es Escuintenango, from a en azc-nah language; literally "dog city" (cf. nci itzcuintli dog).
Proper noun
en former town s/Chiapas c/Mexico.
en 1648 Thomas Gage (priest) Thomas Gage The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s London R. Cotes 111 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.