Nahua
- proper noun
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- 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.
- Nahua culture
- Nahua-Spanish
Examples
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The community curators name the economic and demographic pressures that are forcing the migrations northward into the United States as the Nahua seek sheer survival.
Academic text (2006) -
Local Catholic Nahua tradition is thus neither national nor universal but uniquely local and ethnic.
Academic text (1996) -
Community curators tell a history of ancient Nahua migrations through North and Central America.
Academic text (2006) -
The final Latin America-based community exhibit in Our Peoples is from a Nahua community from Guerrero, Mexico.
Academic text (2006) -
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) -
By the end of the first millennium A.D., much of the Pacific Coast area was occupied by Nahua speakers (Morley and Brainerd 1983, 177).
Academic text (1996) -
Five hundred years ago, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to a Nahua Indian.
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The final Latin America-based community exhibit in Our Peoples is from a Nahua community from Guerrero, Mexico.
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Community curators tell a history of ancient Nahua migrations through North and Central America.
Synonyms
A person from central Mexico with Aztec ancestors
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nahua comes from the group's own name in Nahuatl, so a Nahua is one of the indigenous people who speak that language. That's why the word names a person or the people as a whole.
