NAHUA

Meaning of NAHUA in English

ˈnäwə noun

( plural nahua or nahuas )

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Spanish, from Nahuatl (n. plural)

: nahuatl

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

NAHUA — Indian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztec are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, practicing …
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NAHUA — /nah"wah/ , n. , pl. Nahuas , ( esp. collectively ) Nahua , adj. Nahuatl.
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NAHUA — Middle American Indian population of central Mexico, of which the Aztecs (see Aztec) of pre-Conquest Mexico are probably the best …
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NAHUA — Indian population of Mexico and Central America, of whom the Aztec are the best known. Modern-day Nahua are agricultural, practicing …
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NAHUA LANGUAGE — also called Aztec an American Indian language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in central and western Mexico. Nahua, the most …
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TLAXCALA — I State (pop., 2000: 962,646), central Mexico. The smallest Mexican state, it consists largely of plateau and covers 1,551 sq …
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TABASCO — State (pop., 2000: 1,891,829), southeastern Mexico. It covers an area of 9,756 sq mi (25,267 sq km), and its capital …
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NAHUATL LANGUAGE — Nahuatl was the language of perhaps the majority of the inhabitants of pre-Conquest central Mexico, including Tenochtitlán (now {{link=Mexico City">Mexico …
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MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION — Complex of aboriginal cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America before the Spanish conquest in the 16th …
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AZTEC — They may have originated on the northern Mexican plateau before migrating to their later location. Their migration may have been …
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NAHUATL — ˈnäˌwäd. ə l, -wät ə l noun ( plural nahuatl or nahuatls ) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Spanish, from Nahuatl, …
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NAHUAN — -ən adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Nahua + -an : nahuatlan
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NAGUAL — nəˈ(g)wäl noun also na·hual nəˈ(h)wäl ( plural naguals -älz ; or nagua·les -äˌlās ; also nahuals ) Etymology: Spanish, from …
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BISNAGA — /bis nah"geuh/ , n. any of several thorny cactuses of the genera Echinocactus, Ferocactus, and Astrophytum of the southwestern U.S. …
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PRE-COLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS — the aboriginal American Indian cultures that evolved in Meso-America (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western …
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NORTHERN MEXICAN INDIAN — Distribution of northern Mexican Indians. member of any of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting northern Mexico. The generally accepted ethnographic definition …
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HUMAN SACRIFICE — the offering of the life of a human being to a deity. The occurrence of human sacrifice can usually be …
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TONATIUH — in Meso-American religion, Nahua sun deity of the fifth and final era (the Fifth Sun). In most myths of the …
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TEZCATLIPOCA — (Nahuatl: Smoking Mirror), god of the Great Bear constellation and of the night sky, one of the major deities of …
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QUETZALCATL
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NAHUAN LANGUAGES — subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan languages, including Pochutec, Nahua, and Pipil; they are sometimes considered a subfamily coordinate with Shoshonean and …
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MEXICO CITY — The early period Origins The Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the 13th century. According to tradition, they …
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HUICHOL AND CORA — neighbouring Middle American Indian peoples living in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit in western Mexico. Numbering together about 40,000 …
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CENTRAL AMERICA, HISTORY OF
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TLAXCALA — in full Tlaxcala de Xicohténcatl Town (pop., 2000: 73,213), capital of Tlaxcala state, Mexico. It is located in a mountainous …
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TABASCO — n. State (pop., 2000: 1,891,829), southeastern Mexico. It covers an area of 9,756 sq mi (25,267 sq km), and its …
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NAHUATL LANGUAGE — Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico, which continues to be spoken by more than a million modern Mexicans in various markedly divergent …
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MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION — Complex of aboriginal cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America before the Spanish conquest in the 16th …
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AZTEC — n. Nahuatl -speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now …
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TLAPALLITE — General Information: Chemical Formula: H6(Ca,Pb)2Cu3(SO4)(Te++++O3)4(Te++++++O6) Composition: (Molecular Weight = 1,382.46 gm) Calcium 4.35 % Ca Copper 13.79 % Cu Tellurium …
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EZTLITE — General Information: Chemical Formula: Pb2Fe+++6(Te++++O3)3(Te++++++O6)(OH)10·8(H2O) Composition: (Molecular Weight = 1,814.07 gm) Iron 18.47 % Fe Tellurium 28.14 % Te Hydrogen …
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