English Words That Are Actually Spanish #1

A mythical island from the 1510 Spanish novel Las Sergas de Esplandián by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

Red-Colored

Flowery

Mountain

Nuevo México

The Spanish adopted the word Tejas from the language of the indigenous Cado people. It means “friends” or “allies.”

Derived from the name of the indigenous Ute people, via Spanish yuta.

Etymology may be the Basque haritz ona (good oak).