- Texas
- Mexican province, briefly an independent nation and now a U.S. state, from Spanish Texas, Tejas, earlier pronounced "ta-shas," originally an ethnic name, from Caddo (eastern Texas Indian tribe) taysha "friends, allies," written by the Spanish as a plural. An earlier noun for "Texan of Mexican background" was Texican (1863). Baseball Texas-leaguer is recorded from 1905.