México

→ Dutch: Mexico

desctree

→ English: Mexico, México, Mehico (chiefly humorous pronunciation spelling)
→ Assamese: মেক্সিকো (meksikü)
→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟܣܝܩܘ (mksiqw)
→ Burmese: မက္ကဆီကို (makka.hcikui)
→ Chinese: 墨西哥 (Mòxīgē)
→ Dhivehi: މެކްސިކޯ (mek̊sikō)
→ Finnish: Meksiko
→ Hebrew: מֶקְסִיקוֹ (méksiko)
→ Hindi: मेक्सिको (meksiko)
→ Irish: Meicsiceo
→ Japanese: メキシコ (Mekishiko)
→ Korean: 멕시코 (Meksiko)
→ Thai: เม็กซิโก (mék-sí-goo)
→ Yoruba: Mẹ́síkò

→ Esperanto: Meksiko

→ Faroese: Meksiko

→ French: Mexique
Antillean Creole: Meksik
Haitian Creole: Meksik
→ Arabic: المكسيك
→ Persian: مکزیک (mekzik)
→ Khmer: ម៉ិចស៊ិក (məcsɨk)
→ Norman: Mexique
→ Romanian: Mexic

→ German: Mexiko

→ Greek: Μεξικό (Mexikó)

→ Japanese: メヒコ (Mehiko)

→ Korean: 메히꼬 (Mehikko)

→ Polish: Meksyk

→ Portuguese: México

→ Slovak: Mexiko

→ Tagalog: Mehiko

→ Vietnamese: Mê-hi-cô

→ Yiddish: מעקסיקע (meksike)

1579, from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco, originally a toponym for the Valley of Mexico. Aside from the element -co, the Nahuatl locative suffix, the etymology of this place-name remains uncertain.
It has been suggested to be derived from Mēxihtli, a name belonging to the Aztecs' patron god Huitzilopochtli, in which case the associated locative name could be interpreted as ("place of Huitzilopochtli" or “place where Huitzilopochtli lives”). Another hypothesis suggests the name to be a portmanteau of the words mētztli (“moon”) + xīctli (“navel”), hence the hypothetical original form *Mētzxīcco, meaning “place at the navel/center of the moon”, perhaps referring to the city of Tenochtitlan's position in Lake Texcoco, which was the central lake of a system of interconnected lakes whose shape was likened to that of a rabbit by the Aztecs, an animal associated to the moon. (If that is the case, then the sound of tz /t͡s/ in mētz- has been absorbed into the initial x /ʃ/ of -xīc-, while the geminate cc /kː/ in -xīcco has been transformed into the consonant cluster hc /ʔk/.) A third hypothesis suggests a derivation incorporating metl (“maguey”) (stem me-), perhaps from Mēctli, a maguey goddess, Proto-Uto-Aztecan [Term?].

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State of Mexico, Mexico State (a state of Mexico; capital: Toluca)


Georgia

Georgia (a state in the Southern United States)


AG

abbreviation of Aguascalientes: a state of Mexico


BS

Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur#Spanish

(Mexico) initialism of Baja California Sur: a state of Mexico


CH

abbreviation of Chihuahua: a state of Mexico


CI

abbreviation of Coahuila: a state of Mexico


CL

abbreviation of Colima: a state of Mexico


CM

abbreviation of Campeche: a state of Mexico


CS

abbreviation of Chiapas: a state of Mexico


GR

abbreviation of Guerrero: a state of Mexico


GT

abbreviation of Guanajuato: a state of Mexico


HG

abbreviation of Hidalgo: a state of Mexico


MC

abbreviation of Michoacán: a state of Mexico


ML

abbreviation of Morelos: a state of Mexico


MX

abbreviation of México (= Mexico): a state of Mexico


abbreviation of Nayarit: a state of Mexico


NL

initialism of Nuevo León: a state of Mexico


OA

abbreviation of Oaxaca: a state of Mexico


PU

abbreviation of Puebla: a state of Mexico


QE

abbreviation of Querétaro: a state of Mexico


QR

initialism of Quintana Roo: a state of Mexico


SI

abbreviation of Sinaloa: a state of Mexico


SL

initialism of San Luis Potosí: a state of Mexico


TA

abbreviation of Tamaulipas: a state of Mexico


TB

abbreviation of Tabasco: a state of Mexico


TL

abbreviation of Tlaxcala: a state of Mexico


VC

abbreviation of Veracruz: a state of Mexico


YC

abbreviation of Yucatán: a state of Mexico


ZA

abbreviation of Zacatecas: a state of Mexico


Amazonas

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Amasonanña

a state of the North Region, Brazil; capital: Manaus


Paraná

Borrowed from Old Tupi paranã (“river”).

Paraná (a state of the South Region, Brazil; capital: Curitiba)


California

Calafia
Las sergas de Esplandián
Reconquista

First attested in Montalvo's Las sergas de Esplandián as the name of Calafia's monarchy. A name invented by the author to remind Spanish readers of the recent Reconquista, probably based on califa (“caliph”). By surface analysis, califal + -or + -n- + -ia.

surf

California (the most populous state of the United States)


SO

abbreviation of Sonora: a state of Mexico


Florida

Named la florida (“the land of flowers”) by Spanish explorer Ponce de León, referring to its blooming vegetation and the current season having been Pascua Florida.


Maine

Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)


Virginia

Borrowed from English Virginia, from Latin Virginia.


Montana

Montana (a state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory)


Minnesota

Minnesota (a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States)


Texas

desctree

→ Russian: Техас (Texas)
→ Armenian: Տեխաս (Texas)

From Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.

Texas (a state in the south-central region of the United States)


Oklahoma

Oklahoma (a state in the central United States, formerly a territory)


Tejas

alternative spelling of Texas: Texas (a state in the south-central region of the United States)


Alaska

Borrowed from English Alaska, ultimately from Aleut alaxsxaq.

Alaska (a state of the United States, formerly a territory)

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Samoa Americana · Guam · Islas Marianas del Norte · Puerto Rico · islas Ultramarinas Menores de los Estados Unidos · Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos


Arizona

Arizona (a state in the southwestern United States, established 1912)


Kansas

Kansas (a state of the midwest United States)


Arkansas

Arkansas (a state in the South Central region of the United States)


Colorado

Colorado (a state in the western United States, the 38th state)


Connecticut

Connecticut (a state in the northeastern United States)


Delaware

Delaware (the first state of the United States)


Iowa

Iowa (a state in the Midwestern region of the United States)


Idaho

Idaho (a state in the western United States)


Illinois

Illinois (a state of the United States, named for the people)


Massachusetts

Massachusetts (a state of the United States)


Maryland

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Maryland (a state of the United States; named for Queen Mary, queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland)


Nebraska

Nebraska (a state in the Midwestern region of the United States)


Nevada

Nevada (a state in the western United States)


Rhode Island

Rhode Island
Rhode Island#English:_Q1387

Rhode Island (the smallest state of the United States)


Tennessee

Tennessee (a state of the United States)


Utah

Utah (a state in the western United States)


Washington

Washington State
Washington State#English

Washington, Washington State (a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States)


Wisconsin

Wisconsin (a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States)


Wyoming

Unadapted borrowing from English Wyoming.

ubor

Wyoming (a state of the United States, formerly a territory)


Baviera

Bavaria (a historic region, former duchy, former kingdom, and modern state of Germany; the modern state includes parts of historical Swabia and Franconia as well as historical Bavaria)


Mich.

abbreviation of Michoacán: a state of Mexico


Puebla

Ellipsis of Puebla de los Ángeles (literally “Town of the Angels”), from puebla (“town, village”), deverbal from poblar (“to populate”), inherited from Latin populāre.


Oaxaca

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (“horse tamarind tree (Leucaena leucocephala)”) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).


BCN

Baja California Norte
Baja California Norte#Spanish

initialism of Baja California Norte: a state of Mexico


Aguascalientes

From aguas (“waters”) + calientes (“hot”), because of the many hot springs in the state.


Campeche

From the city of Campeche, from Yucatec Maya Kaan Peech.


Chiapas

Plural of Chiapa: a term commonly featured in the names of many historical Spanish settlements in the region, borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Chiapan, from chia (“chia”) + -pan (“place of; place of the”); alternatively, from chia + -apan (“river, stream”), presumably in reference to the Grijalva River.


Coahuila

→ English: Coahuila

desc

→ Chinese: 科阿韋拉 /科阿韦拉 (Kē'āwéilā) (transliteration)

⇒ Translingual: Coahuilasaurus, Coahuilaceratops

Of Nahuan origin, meaning “place of trees”; compare Classical Nahuatl cuahuitl (“tree, wood”) + -tlān (“place of”).


Durango

[d̪uˈɾãŋ.ɡo]

Named after the city of Durango, in northern Spain, of uncertain origin, probably from Basque Duranco, but possibly from Basque Urazango, Basque Padurango, or a Roman fundus, Late Latin Turanicus. More at Durango on Wikipedia.


Guanajuato

Borrowed from Purepecha Kuanasï Uata (literally “hill of frogs”).


Guerrero

Named after Vicente Guerrero, a revolutionary general in the Mexican War of Independence.


Hidalgo

Named after the Mexican independence leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.


Jalisco

From Classical Nahuatl Xālixco, from xālli (“sand”) + īxtli (“face, surface”) + -co, a locative suffix.


NLE

abbreviation of Nuevo León: a state of Mexico


Michoacán

→ English: Michoacán

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl michhuahcān (“place of fish; fishers”), from michhuah (“one who has fish”).

MC (alternative abbreviation)
Mich. (alternative abbreviation)


Morelos

Named after José María Morelos, a leader in the Mexican War of Independence.


Nayarit

From Cora Náayerite, named after a chief of the Cora people, Cora Naye.


Nuevo León

Meaning New León, after the Kingdom of León in Spain.


Querétaro

Querétaro (a state of Mexico; capital and largest city: Querétaro)


Quintana Roo

Named after Andrés Quintana Roo, from the Mexican War of Independence.

Quintana Roo (a state of Mexico; capital: Chetumal; largest city: Cancún)


San Luis Potosí

Named after Louis IX of France (in Spanish San Luis Rey de Francia) and Potosí, in reference to the mines of Potosí, in Bolivia.


Tlaxcala

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tlaxcallān, from tlaxcalli (“tortilla”) + -tlān.


Zacatecas

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl zacatēcah (“people of the place of grass”), from zacatl (“grass”).


San Pablo

Southeast Region
Southeast Region#English

São Paulo (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)


Estado de México

→ English: State of Mexico (calque)

State of Mexico, Mexico State (a state of Mexico)


Mérida

From the third word of the Latin “colōnia Augusta Ēmerita”, from the feminine of ēmeritus (“veteran”), referring to the Iberian city being founded as an imperial veterans’ colony.


Pensilvania

Pennsylvania (a state of the United States)


Nuevo México

New Mexico (a state in the southwestern United States)


Carolina del Sur

South Carolina
South Carolina#English:_Q1456

South Carolina (a state of the United States)


Hamburgo

Hamburg (a state of Germany containing the city of the same name)


Brandeburgo

[bɾãn̪.d̪eˈβ̞uɾ.ɣ̞o]


Hawái

Borrowed from English Hawaii, from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi.

Hawaii (an insular state of the United States, formerly a territory)


Luisiana

Louisiana (a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States)


Misisipi

Mississippi (a state of the United States)


Misuri

Missouri (a state in the Midwestern region of the United States)


Nueva Hampshire

New Hampshire
New Hampshire#English:_Q759

New Hampshire (a state of the United States)


Nueva Jersey

New Jersey (a state in the northeastern United States)


Carolina del Norte

North Carolina
North Carolina#English:_Q1454

North Carolina (a state of the United States, situated on the east coast of the North American mainland north of South Carolina and south of Virginia)


Oregón

Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest#English

Oregon (a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States)


Dakota del Sur

South Dakota
South Dakota#English:_Q1211

South Dakota (a state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States)


Virginia Occidental

West Virginia
West Virginia#English:_Q1371

West Virginia (a state of the United States)


Zac

abbreviation of Zacatecas: a state of Mexico


Sajonia

Saxony (a state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands)


Trujillo

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

From the city in Spain, from Arabic تُرْجَالَة (turjāla), from Latin Turgalium.

one of several cities, districts, and provinces, mostly in Spanish-speaking countries:


Salzburgo

[sal̟θ̬ˈβ̞uɾ.ɣ̞o]


Ags.

abbreviation of Aguascalientes: a state of Mexico


Renania del Norte-Westfalia

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia#English

North Rhine-Westphalia (a state of Germany)


Río de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)


Bolívar

→ English: Bolivar

→ Tagalog: Bolivar

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Wodiwanña

Borrowed from Basque Bolibar, from bolu + ibar. Most places named Bolívar are named after Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), a South American leader.


Falcón

English: Falcon


Anzoátegui

Named after Venezuelan military officer José Antonio Anzoátegui.

named-after

Anzoátegui (a state of Venezuela; capital: Barcelona)


Carintia

(historical) Carinthia (a former duchy and historical region of Central Europe, now split politically between Austria and Slovenia):


Portuguesa

From the story of a young woman of Portuguese descent who drowned in the Portuguesa River.


Sin.

abbreviation of Sinaloa: a state of Mexico


Tenesí

alternative spelling of Tennessee: Tennessee (a state of the United States)


Edoméx

→ English: Edomex

Estado de México
Estado de México#Spanish

synonym of Estado de México (“the state of Mexico”)


Alsacia-Lorena

Alsace-Lorraine (a historical state in Germany (1871-1918); modern Grand Est)


Chis.

abbreviation of Chiapas: a state of Mexico


Qro.

abbreviation of Querétaro: a state of Mexico


Tamps

abbreviation of Tamaulipas: a state of Mexico


Gro.

abbreviation of Guerrero: a state of Mexico


Gto.

abbreviation of Guanajuato: a state of Mexico