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单词 nahuatl
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Nahuatladj.n.

Brit. /ˈnɑːwɑːtl/, /nɑːˈwɑːtl/, U.S. /ˈnɑˌwɑtl/, /ˈnɑˌwɑdl/
Inflections: Plural Nahuatls, unchanged.
Forms: 1800s– Nahual, 1800s– Nahuat, 1800s– Nahuatl, 1900s– Nahuatla.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Nahuatl. Etymons: Spanish Náhuatl; Nahuatl Nahuatl.
Etymology: < Spanish Náhuatl and its etymon Nahuatl Nahuatl, lit. ‘person or thing that pleases the ear’ < Nahua (see Nahua n. and adj.) + -tl , singular noun suffix. Compare earlier Nahuatlaca n. and adj.Modern Nahuatl is divided into three regional groups: the central and northern Aztec dialects retain the consonant group tl (hence the form Nahuatl); the eastern Aztec dialects have replaced the consonant group tl with t (hence the form Nahuat); while the western dialects have replaced the consonant group tl with l (hence the form Nahual).
A. adj.
Of or relating to any of a group of American Indian peoples of southern Mexico and Central America, or their language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1726
Aztec1787
Miskito1789
Chichimec1811
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Otomi1843
Mimbres1856
Nahuatl1858
Yaqui1861
Zapotec1861
Tzeltal1868
Tlapanec1874
Mixtec1875
Bribri1876
Mangue1876
Nahua1876
Nahuatlaca1877
Mixe1888
Trique1891
Mazatecan1892
Subtiaba1892
Huichol1900
Cuna1905
Mixteca1911
Subtiaban1911
Tarascan1911
Tarahumara1912
Zapotecan1922
Tzotzil1939
Mixe–Zoquean1940
Tiwa1950
Mixteco1959
Kekchi1960
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > Aztecan
Mexicano1852
Sonoran1863
Nahuatlan1897
Nahuatl1915
1858 E. G. Squier States Central Amer. xvi. 317 It was one of their leaders, bearing the hereditary name Quetzalcoatl in the Nahual dialect.
1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 171 Some variety of green stone resembling emerald, and called by the Nahuatl or Mexican name chalchiuitl.
1891 Z. Nuttall Atlatl or Spear-thrower of Anc. Mexicans 6 The Nahuatl text of Sahagun's invaluable Manuscript Historia.
1915 E. Sapir in Amer. Anthropologist 17 99 The total number of Southern Paiute consonants that have to be directly accounted for in terms of Nahuatl consonants is considerably less.
1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. iii. 72 The crucial role played by mountains in Aztec religion is reflected in the Nahuatl term for village, city, or community, altepetl.
B. n.
1. A member of any of the Nahuatl peoples.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1578
Miskito1697
Tiwa1710
Nahuatlaca1775
Otomi1782
Aztec1787
Mazahua1787
Mixteca1787
Totonac1787
Zapotec1797
Chichimec1809
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Mixtec1852
Olmec1852
Mogollon1855
Mimbres1859
Yaqui1861
Cuna1868
Tzeltal1868
Nahuatl1873
Huastec1874
Tarahumara1874
Tlapanec1874
Bribri1875
Nahua1875
Mangue1876
Mazatec1878
Subtiaba1891
Tequistlatec1891
Trique1891
Nahuatlan1897
Huichol1900
Mixtecan1900
Tarascan1931
Mixe–Zoque1957
Mixteco1972
Garifuna1977
Mixean1982
Garinagu1983
Mixe–Zoquean1989
1873 A. Lang in Fortn. Rev. May 624 The rite itself was actually practised by the Nahuatls in America.
1963 W. Barnstone tr. I. Bernal Mexico before Cortez vi. 69 The Toltecs..produced an art..which..represents the collision and fusion of the new people, the Nahuatls, with the remaining inheritors of the ancient civilizations.
2002 Guardian (Nexis) 31 July 14 The Pope is in Mexico today to make a 16th-century Nahuatl into the continent's first indigenous saint.
2. The Uto-Aztecan language of the Nahuatl, usually regarded as a group of related regional varieties; the branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family constituted by these. Cf. Mexicano n. 2.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Central Amerindian languages > Uto-Aztecan > Nahuatlan
Aztec1787
Mexican1787
Nahuatlaca1858
Nahuatl1876
Nahuatlan1900
Nahua1919
Mexicano1946
1876 D. G. Brinton Myths of New World (ed. 2) 30 (note) Aztec is probably from iztac, white, and Nahuatlacatl signifies those who speak the language Nahuatl, clear sounding, sonorous.
1921 E. Sapir Lang. iv. 70 The compounded object of a verb precedes the verbal element in..Nahuatl.
1973 Guardian 23 Mar. 12/6 I was going to learn Nahuatl, the Aztec language, which some of the two-dollar whores could speak.
1996 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 116 Spanish friars often brought with them groups of Christian Tlaxcalans from central Mexico, who spoke a dialect of Nahuatl.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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