tesgüino

• tesguino, tesquino, tesvino

From Spanish tesgüino, from Nahuatl tescuini, tescuin.

tesgüino (countable and uncountable, plural tesgüinos)

1. A corn beer made by the Tarahumara Indians of Sierra Madre in Mexico.
   • 1959, Campbell W. Pennington, The Material Culture of the Tarahumar and Their Environment, Volume 2‎^[1]:

     Apples and crabapples (Malus sylves tris and M. baccata) are also used in preparing tesgüino; the process is essentially the same as the one used in preparing the other fruit tesgüinos.

Borrowed from Nahuatl tescuini, tescuin.

tesgüino m (plural tesgüinos)

1. tesgüino

• tejuino, tesguino

• English: tesgüino
• English: tesguino
• English: tesquino

• “tesgüino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024