What Ilhuicatl means
The sky as a physical vault. Combined with atl it gives ilhuicaatl, the sea, literally sky-water, the Nahuatl name for the ocean that met the Spanish ships.
NahuatlCore vocabulary
Ilhuicatl
“sky, heaven”
Say it
eel·WEE·kahtl
Classical form
ilhuicatl (sky)
Names built from Ilhuicatl
1 name on this site uses 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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