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Aztlán / Etymology

The meaning of the name Aztlan is uncertain. One suggested meaning is "place of egrets"—the explanation given in the Crónica Mexicáyotl—but this is not possible under Nahuatl morphology: "place of egrets" would be Aztatlan. Other proposed derivations include "place of whiteness" and "at the place in the vicinity of tools", sharing the az- element of words such as teponaztli, "drum" (from tepontli, "log").

Aztlán [as'tlan] is the Spanish language spelling and pronunciation of Nahuatl Aztlan ['as.t?a?n]. The spelling Aztlán and its matching last-syllable stress cannot be Nahuatl, which always stresses words on the second-to-last syllable. The accent mark on the second a added in Spanish marks stress shift (from oxytone to paroxytone), typical of several Nahuatl words when loaned into Mexican Spanish.

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Places postulated as Aztlán

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Etymology

Use by the Chicano movement

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