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Aztlán

Aztlán proper noun: the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

Proper noun

Aztlán

  1. The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

Origin of Aztlán

Uncertain. One suggested meaning is "place of Herons" or "place of egrets", but this is not possible under Nahuatl morphology: "place of egrets" is Aztatlan. Other proposed derivations include "place of whiteness" and "at the place in the vicinity of tools", sharing the āz- element of words such as teponāztli, "drum" (from tepontli, "log")

Questions about Aztlán

What does Aztlán mean?
Aztlán means the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.
What part of speech is Aztlán?
Aztlán is a proper noun.

Words near Aztlán in the dictionary

  1. Aztecks
  2. Aztecness
  3. Aztecs
  4. Aztequism
  5. Aztequisms
  6. Aztlán
  7. aztreonam
  8. aztreonams
  9. Azua
  10. Azuara
  11. Azuaras

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