What Mazatl means
The seventh day sign, from Proto-Nahuan *masaa-. Mazatlan means place of deer. After contact the same word was stretched to cover horses, first called maçatl by people who had never seen one.
NahuatlCore vocabulary
Mazatl
“deer”
Say it
MAH·sahtl
Classical form
mazātl (deer)
Places built from Mazatl
- Mazatlán
place of deer
mah-sah-TLAHN
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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