Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico, including the Aztecs.
- noun The Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuatl.
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- proper noun The
polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people ofMexico . - proper noun A group of people indigenous to the Central Mexico region spanning multiple tribal groups including the Aztecs.
- proper noun US politics All persons descended from pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Western hemisphere.
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- noun a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
- noun the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahuatl
Etymologies
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= We do find, however, in the Nahuatl language, which is the proper name of the Aztecan, a number of derivatives from the same root, _na_, among them this very word, _Nahuatl_, all of them containing the idea
Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Itzli is "obsidian" in Nahuatl and tlan means "place," so this island is the "Place of Obsidian," and here excavations have revealed layers of debris several meters deep, proving that the island was in continuous use as a huge obsidian workshop for 2,000 years, going back to the very foundation of the great Teuchitlán Nation and stretching right up to the arrival of the Spaniards.
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Itzli is "obsidian" in Nahuatl and tlan means "place," so this island is the "Place of Obsidian," and here excavations have revealed layers of debris several meters deep, proving that the island was in continuous use as a huge obsidian workshop for 2,000 years, going back to the very foundation of the great Teuchitlán Nation and stretching right up to the arrival of the Spaniards.
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The city's name means "In the Palace of the Flowers" in Nahuatl - although here under the sun, one's mind may wander to the loser of a ball game, or a blood-crazed priest with his knife ... flowers don't enter into it.
Busting ghosts at Xochicalco, Morelos: A UNESCO World Heritage Site 2009
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The city's name means "In the Palace of the Flowers" in Nahuatl - although here under the sun, one's mind may wander to the loser of a ball game, or a blood-crazed priest with his knife ... flowers don't enter into it.
Busting ghosts at Xochicalco, Morelos: A UNESCO World Heritage Site 2009
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In another related Internet article, this same writer simply summarized the Anderson and Dibble English translation of Chapter Two of Book Seven of Sahagun's Florentine Codex in Nahuatl without any indication that this was being done.
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Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 - 1590) provides us with both illustrations and a written account in Nahuatl given by his Aztec informants.
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Therefore, for reasons given above, the Aztec song-poems in Nahuatl could have been fairly accurately transmitted from the oral to the written tradition, albeit backed up by codices, memorization in the Calmecac, and the nature of the poems themselves.
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Therefore, for reasons given above, the Aztec song-poems in Nahuatl could have been fairly accurately transmitted from the oral to the written tradition, albeit backed up by codices, memorization in the Calmecac, and the nature of the poems themselves.
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Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 - 1590) provides us with both illustrations and a written account in Nahuatl given by his Aztec informants.
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It was people called Nahuas (NAH-was), speakers of the Nahuatl (NAH-wat) language and other closely related tongues, who travelled south in waves in the 10th through the 13th centuries.
For the wanderers who became the Aztecs history was a chorus of voices – Camilla Townsend | Aeon Essays Camilla Townsend 2023
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