Aztlán

English

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")

Proper noun

Aztlán

  1. (anthropology) The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.
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