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Nahua

Nahua

9.9
Relating to the people, culture, or language of central Mexico
  • adjective
translation icon : nahua
  • Yet while it lit up a myriad of smaller pictures, the book also revealed for the first time the larger picture of colonial Nahua culture and society.
  • colonial Nahua
  • early Nahua

And really also that I'm looking at the Nahua area and the Maya area.

Examples

  • The community organized a festival celebrating traditional Nahua customs and heritage.

  • The ancient Nahua poem quoted above states in Nahua terms that birds and flowers radiate from heaven, a concept that is commensurate with the Christian idea of a heavenly paradise.

    Academic text (2011)
  • To what degree redistributive institutions played a part in the lives of most Nahua households is an important but elusive subject.

    Academic text (1997)
  • These early Nahua migrations were primarily commercial, and although the migrants brought their religion with them, apparently they were not insistent about it.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The Nahua students interpreted the images and expanded the answers, phonetically transcribing Nahuatl using Latin letters.

    Blog text (14)
  • Having worked with the Nahua of Sierra Norte de Pueblo for more than twenty years, Haly reports on his dialogues with Nahua religious practitioners.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Its study of colonial Nahua communities in the Toluca region greatly altered our understanding of the altepetl in general and specifically its corporate integrity and sustaining ideology.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The authors list the intertwined benefits of this approach, by which students acquire not only knowledge of language, but also "Nahua Aztec history from an indigenous perspective, a deeper understanding of Danza steps, creation myths, and the making and playing of indigenous musical instruments."

    Academic text (2004)
  • Along with another fifteen Nahua and mestizo villages, they belong to Tantoyuca County, and are all administratively and politically dependent on the mestizo county seat of Tantoyuca.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In particular, a number of analysts avow that the Nican mopohua reflects the elegant Nahua of a native speaker; some attribute it to the 16th-century Nahua intellectual Antonio Valeriano.

    Academic text (2009)

Surface Forms

Nahua positive

Etymology

Nahua comes from the people's own language name, Nahuatl, and was used to describe things that belong to that group. So Nahua as an adjective means 'of the Nahua people', their culture, or their language.