"Nahuatl" and/as "dance"?

[micc2]

Na:huatl (long a)  means "pleasant sounding, clear, understandable"..... 
I have never seen the neck thing......

I believe nahnahua means to embrace in general......

mario

I live for reasoned, enlightened spirituality:

"Tlacecelilli", tranquilidad, paz


Mario E. Aguilar, PhD
www.mexicayotl.net



macehual08 at gmail.com wrote:
> I just came across a definition in "Oxford Music Online" (in an 
> article on Mexican music by E. Thomas Stanford and Arturo Chamorro) 
> that defines Nahuatl as "sonorous, audible, council; law" AND "to 
> dance embraced at the neck."
>
> Is anyone familiar with the second definition? Nahuatl as a "dance 
> embraced at the neck"? I don't see this definition in Molina, Siméon, 
> Karttunen and wonder if anyone knows where this association might come 
> from?
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