What Citlalin means
Arenas records citlalin for a star or comet. It is the source of the very common girl's name Citlali or Citlalli, and of Citlaltepetl, star mountain, the Nahuatl name of Pico de Orizaba.
NahuatlCore vocabulary
Citlalin
“star”
Say it
seet·LAH·leen
Classical form
cītlalin (star)
Names built from Citlalin
2 names on this site use this word.
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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