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The word milpa (attested in English 1648 and in Spanish 1552 ([[Haugen, Jason D. 2009. Borrowed borrowings: Nahuatl loan words in English. Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, (3).|Haugen 2009])) refers to corn fields/maize plantations, and comes from Nahuatl /mi:lpan/ "maize.plant-loc".

Nahuatl mi:l- "maize plant" comes from PCN *mɨra, in turn from PSUA *mura "maize tassel".

The locative ending -pan comes from the PSUA locative case suffix -pa.

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