"Traditional Nahuatl name"
The name Metztli is commonly a female name from the "Nahuatl" origin.
Metztli is the Classical Nahuatl word for moon, listed as metztli, moon, in Frances Karttunen's Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl. In colonial Mexica sources, including Book 7 of the Florentine Codex compiled by Bernardino de Sahagun, Metztli is also the name of the moon deity. Scholarly Nahuatl orthography marks the long vowel, metztli, though the name is written without it in everyday use.
The pronunciation of Metztli is METZ-tlee.
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