Definitions for Nahuatls

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Nahuatls Na·hua·tl

Spelling: [nah-waht-l]

IPA: /ˈnɑ wɑt l/

Nahuatls is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 261 anagrams from letters in Nahuatls (aahlnstu).

Definitions for Nahuatls

noun

1. a member of any of various peoples of ancient origin ranging from southeastern Mexico to parts of Central America and including the Aztecs.
2. a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by over half a million people mostly in central Mexico. Compare Aztec (def 2).

adjective

1. of or relating to the Nahuatl language or peoples.

Origin of Nahuatls

1815-25; Spanish náhuatl Nahuatl nāhuatl something that makes an agreeable sound, a second-language speaker of one's own language

Examples for Nahuatls

Several of the names of the seven “men of Mayapan” have a Nahuatl appearance.

The Nahuatl legend helps out the theory of Atlantis to willing minds.

The proper names in the legend have nothing of a Nahuatl appearance.

Referring to the Nahuatl belief that there are nine upper and nine under worlds.

It is of Aztec origin, as in the Nahuatl language tepeuani means “conqueror.”

They spoke the tongue Nahuatl, giving to it their own dialect.

The last four names given are clearly Nahuatl, as is also Zuchitan.

The Nahuatl text is more definite than the Spanish translation.

Daqui; the letter d does not occur either in Cakchiquel or Nahuatl.

There were twenty clans, called in the Nahuatl language "calpullis."