单词 | nahuatl |
释义 | Nahuatladj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to any of a group of American Indian peoples of southern Mexico and Central America, or their language. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.n.1858 |
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