What Cihuatl means
The base of cihuapilli (noblewoman) and of Cihuacoatl, both a goddess and the title of the second-highest office in Tenochtitlan. Colonial dictionaries give a wide range of senses from matron to female of any species.
NahuatlCore vocabulary
Cihuatl
βwomanβ
Say it
SEEΒ·wahtl
Classical form
cihuΔtl (woman)
Places built from Cihuatl
- Zihuatanejo
place of women
see-wah-tah-NEH-hoh
The Nahuatl words behind the names
Learn twenty of these and most Aztec names decode themselves. Atl is water, tlalli earth, citlalin star, metztli moon, yollotl heart, cuauhtli eagle, xochitl flower.
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