Example sentences for: nahuatl

How can you use “nahuatl” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mariachi groups originated in the region of Jalisco, even before it was named as a state, a region greatly influenced by the Coca people, and in fact the Nahuatl word for contemporary indigenous performers is mariachitos.

  • Avocado was borrowed from Spanish and was originally spelled aguacate . The word's origin is Nahuatl ahuacatl , a word meaning `testicle,' because of the similarity of the shape of the fruit.

  • But the Aztecs understood that in the Nahuatl language the name Tlecuauhtlacupeuh meant “la que viene volando de la luz como el águila de fuego” (she who comes flying from the region of light like an eagle of fire).

  • The first Spaniard to encounter these Nahuatl settlements was Hernán Cortez’s nephew, Francisco Cortez de Buenaventura.

  • ( Analco is Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and means `on the other side' [of the river].)


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