guaacas

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish vacas (cows), plural of vaca (cow), from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Noun

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guaacas (plural guacásim)

  1. cow
  2. meat

References

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  • Collard, Howard, Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎[1] (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 20, 93, 108, 140