Nahuan.adj.

1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States II. viii. 297 The national game of the Nahuas was the tlachtli, which strongly resembled in many points our game of football.

1883 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 15 52 The Toltecas, from whom the Quichas or Peruvians claim descent, as well as the Mexicans or Nahuas.

1947 Amer. Antiq. 13 24 As for bone artifacts, awls of this material are found from the archaic cultures to the most recent periods of the Nahuas.

1963 Man 63 24 We made a brief field inspection of two societies included in this random sample: the Papago and the Nahua.

1990 M. Brave Bird & R. Erdoes Lakota Woman (1991) xiv. 213 We also had two Mexican Indians taking part, one a Nahua from Oaxaca [etc.].

1992 R. Wright Stolen Continents (1993) xi. 248 The Revolution was about many things, but Mexico's Indians—Nahua, Zapotec, Otomí, and the rest—fought to regain lands lost to the Spaniards and the creole landlords.

1919 Man 19 120 There has been recently some confusion in writing about the Mexican language as if it were equivalent to Naua or Nahua.

1969 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 59 95 It was the Nahua-speaking Nicarao groups who introduced cacao to Nicaragua.

1980 Amer. Antiq. 45 456 Studies..have established the existence of three major dialectal groupings of Nahua, termed Nahuatl, Nahual, and Nahuat (Pipil).

1876 Bot. Bull. 1 17 Chia was among the Nahua races of Ancient Mexico as regularly cultivated as corn.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 207/1 The languages of the Nahua nations..show no connexion of origin with the language of the Otomi tribes.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 122 The Nahua civilization of Mexico.

1957 E. Hyams Speaking Garden vi. 70 Tumatl is a Nahua word.

1962 Listener 23 Aug. 270/2 Mexico's own Nahua and Mayan cultures.

1979 L. Campbell in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 958 Whistle speech is shared by Amuzgo, Mazatec,..some Nahua dialects, and Mexican Kickapoo.

1990 Jrnl. Lat. Amer. Stud. 22 414 With a sure grasp of Nahua religion and culture, he highlights many key points in the piecemeal process of ‘occidentalisation’.