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Northern Puebla Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from a Totonacan language; cf. Highland Totonac tancaꞌxa.
Noun
tancax
- jumping pit viper (Atropoides nummifer)
Derived terms
References
- Brockway, Earl, Hershey de Brockway, Trudy, Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018) Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42) (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 191