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aztlán

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables
azt-lan
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

Etymology

Uncertain. One suggested meaning is "place of Herons" or "place of egrets", but this is not possible under Nahuatl morphology: "place of egrets" is Aztatlan. Other proposed derivations include "place of whiteness" and "at the place in the vicinity of tools", sharing the āz- element of words such as teponāztli, "drum" (from tepontli, "log")

Questions

What does aztlán mean?
The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.
Where does aztlán come from?
Uncertain. One suggested meaning is "place of Herons" or "place of egrets", but this is not possible under Nahuatl morphology: "place of egrets" is Aztatlan. Other proposed derivations include "place of whiteness" and "at the place in the vicinity of tools", sharing the āz- element of words such as teponāztli, "drum" (from tepontli, "log")

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