nahuatl|nahuatls in English

noun

member of one of many Mexican Indian tribes

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1. Moreover, illiteracy is widespread; most read neither Spanish nor Nahuatl.

2. Atlatl means "spear thrower" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec

3. The word "Axolotl" comes from the native Aztec language, or nahuatl

4. The name derives from a word Copali which in Nahuatl language means „ incense ”

5. Chipotle is a Nahuatl word that means dried and smoked jalapeno chili pepper.

6. The Chili pepper (also chile, chile pepper, chilli pepper, or chilli), from Nahuatl chīlli (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʃiːlːi] ()), is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum which are members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae

7. The rugged landscape has partly shielded Xilitla from industrialization, helping preserve its indigenous Huastec and Nahuatl cultures and traditional agrarian lifestyles.

8. The word Chilaquiles (pronunced: [tʃilaˈkiles] or chee-lah-kee-lehs) derives from an ancient word in the Aztec Nahuatl language meaning “chilis and greens.” The Nahuatl language originated in Central Mexico and can still be heard spoken today in some regional communities.

9. That's 'always smoking' in Nahuatl, ' says a man in Cholula, using the Aztec language still spoken locally.

10. Aztec definition is - a member of a Nahuatl-speaking people that founded the Mexican empire conquered by Cortes in 1519.

11. He relates: “Children who used to fall asleep at the meetings are very alert and listen carefully when I speak in Nahuatl.

12. Copal is a generic term rooted in the indigenous Nahuatl language of Aztecs which uses "Copalli" to describe scented smoke

13. Copal is the common name of the aromatic resin of a family of trees native from Mexico, Copalquáhuitl in Nahuatl

14. Native languages are more prominent in Latin America than in Anglo-America, with Nahuatl, Quechua, Aymara and Guaraní as the most common.

15. These include the Nahuatl, Zapotec, Maya and Quinchés in Mexico and Central America, and the Aymara, Quechua and Arawaks in the southern part of the continent

16. QUALITY Chipotle - Simply Organic Chipotle Powder (Capsicum annuum) comes from the Nahuatl word ‘chilpoctli’ which means ‘smoked chili.’ This spice is obtained from dried and smoked jalapeno peppers

17. The name Copal was probably derived from the Nahuatl Copalli, “resin.” When hard, Copal is lustrous, varying in hue from almost colourless and transparent to a bright yellowish brown.

18. Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico

19. The Chiclets name is derived from the Mexican Spanish word "Chicle", derived from the Aztec Nahuatl word "chictli/tzictli", meaning "sticky stuff" and referring to a pre-Columbian chewing gum found throughout Mesoamerica

20. Among the many helpful touches are the appendices which include the Mixtec names for various communities which are almost universally referred to by their Spanish or Nahuatl Cognomens and four documents in transcription and translation

21. The word Chilaquiles comes from the Nahuatl language, meaning chilis and greens. A traditional dish served in Mexico, the recipe hit the United States in 1898 when featured in The Spanish Cookbook, by Encarnación Pinedo

22. Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico.The Aztecs are so called from Aztlán (“White Land”), an allusion to their origins, probably in northern Mexico

23. Brazilian Portuguese uses the trigraph ⟨tch⟩ /tʃ/ for loanwords; e.g., tchau, 'ciao', tcheco 'Czech', República Tcheca 'Czech Republic', tchê 'che' (this latter is regional), etc. European Portuguese normally replace the trigraph ⟨tch⟩ with ⟨ch⟩ /ʃ/: chau, checo, República Checa, etc. Both Spanish and Portuguese use ⟨zz⟩ /ts/ (never as /dz/ – this sequence appears only in loanwords from Japanese, e.g., adzuki) for some Italian loanwords, but in Portuguese may sometimes not be pronounced as affricate, but having an epenthetic /i/ or /ɨ/; e.g., Sp. and Port. pizza 'pizza', Sp. and Port. paparazzo 'paparazzo', etc. Spanish also utilizes ⟨tz⟩ /ts/ for Basque, Catalan and Nahuatl loanwords, and ⟨tl⟩ /tɬ/ (or /tl/) for Nahuatl loanwords; e.g., Ertzaintza, quetzal, xoloitzcuintle, Tlaxcala, etc. Portuguese utilizes ⟨ts⟩ for German, originarily ⟨z⟩, and Japanese loanwords.