How to Use Nahuatl in a Sentence

Nahuatl

noun
  • The cactus appears in the Aztec codices and the name comes from a Nahuatl word that means a pot covered in spines.
    Eyder Peralta, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Performed in English, Spanish and Nahuatl, with English and Spanish supertitles available throughout the performance.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Translated languages included Nahuatl, Extremaduran, and Kirundi.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The spa El Capricho Spa occupies its own cliff ledge, 6,000 square feet carved into volcanic rock with treatment rooms named after local flowers in Nahuatl—Citlaxochitl (poinsettia), Texochitl (stone flower).
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Matthew Restall, for example, has worked indefatigably as a myth buster for dozens of misconceptions for roughly two decades now, and only recently did another historian, Camilla Townsend, stitch together the history of the Aztecs according to their own statements, as recorded in Nahuatl.
    Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025

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