Tlalli
The Nahuatl word for earth, land or soil.
Meaning and origin
Tlālli is the everyday Nahuatl noun for the ground itself, the soil that is farmed and the land a community lives on, and it turns up throughout Nahuatl place names and ritual speech about maize and fertility.
How to pronounce Tlalli
| English (US) | TLAH-lee /ˈtlɑːli/ |
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