Tejanx

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o.

Noun[edit]

Tejanx (plural Tejanxs)

  1. A Texan of Mexican descent (of any gender); a Tejano or Tejana.
    • 2021, Ethan Blue, The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal, Oakland: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 244:
      He also understood reciprocal paternalistic obligation as more important than the impersonal alienations of contract or law—something an older generation of Texans, or Tejanxs, might have appreciated.
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