Cazcan

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Cazcan (right) and Spanish(bottom left) troops fighting.

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Etymology

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

Proper noun

Cazcan

  1. A partly nomadic indigenous people of Mexico.
    • 1911, Cyrus Thomas, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America‎:
      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.
  2. The language of this people.
    • 1903, Guy Carleton Lee, The history of North America‎, page 440:
      Cazcan. — In Zacatecas and Jalisco. (Extinct.)
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