mogoten.

Etymology: Apparently < American Spanish mogote (20th cent. or earlier in sense 2; a1500 denoting each of the three southern peaks of Trinidad as seen from the sea (and in similar senses in New World contexts until the mid 18th cent.); late 18th cent. in Castilian Spanish in sense ‘hillock’), though this appears not to be attested in sense 1; further etymology uncertain and disputed.It has been suggested that the American Spanish word is derived < Spanish mogote immature horn of a deer (1634), itself perhaps < an unrecorded derivative of Basque moko beak, peak (see J. Corominas Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana (1954) at mogote). However, since the sense ‘peak, hillock’ is attested so early and consistently in New World contexts it seems possible that it originated in an American Indian language (in which case the sense ‘immature horn’ either represents a semantic development from the earlier topographic sense, or a later, unrelated loan from Basque), although no etymon in an American Indian language has been traced.