HOW TO PRONOUNCE
nahuatl
/ˈnɑːwɑːt(ə)l/
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What does nahuatl mean?
noun
- A member of a group of people indigenous to Central Mexico, spanning multiple tribal groups and including the Aztecs.
proper noun
- The polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people of Mexico.
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/ˈnɑːwɑːt(ə)l/
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/nɑːˈwɑːt(ə)l//nəˈwɑːt(ə)l/
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Some languages, again, have diminutives of the word for "child," often formed by reduplication, like the wee wean of Lowland Scotch, and the pilpil, "infant" of the Nahuatl of Mexico.
"The words Atlas and Atlantic have no satisfactory etymology in any language known to Europe. They are not Greek, and cannot be referred to any known language of the Old World. But in the Nahuatl language we find immediately the radical a, atl, which signifies water, war, and the top of the head. (Molina, "Vocab.