Nahua
Speech parts
1. Nahua - Noun
2. Nahua - Adjective
Meaning
Nahua (plural Nahuas or Nahua)
A member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador.
Nahua (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
Synonyms
Examples
Chicano would thus be a Hispanized word for Chichen and Mayans, rather than the Aztec or Nahua people.
Ethnohistorian Susan Gillespie has argued that the Nahua understanding of history as repeating itself in cycles also led to a subsequent rationalization of the events of the conquests.
To this day, the Nahua consider the Sun to be a heart-soul (tona-tiuh): "round, hot, pulsating".
History main Migrational period The Nahua peoples began to migrate into Mesoamerica from northern Mexico in the 6th century.
The role of the Nahua wife acquired through an alliance would have been to assist her husband achieve his military and diplomatic objectives.