-tlah: place where there is an abundance of something
-ton-tli: diminuitive
-c(o): locative suffix
"Little Place of Beans"
yucun: temple
nduchi: bean
"Temple of the Beans"
Mary Elizabeth Smith , "It Doesn't Amount to a Hill of Beans: The Frijol Motif in Mixtec Place Signs," Smoke and Mist: Mesoamerican Studies in Memory of Thelma D. Sullivan, ed. J. Kathryn Josserand and Karen Dakin, vol. 2 (Oxford: BAR International Series, 1988) 697-698.
Raul Alavez, Toponimia Mixteca (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1988) 71.