English Explanatory Dictionary

Aztlán

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

Word forms

Aztlán

Etymology

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")

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