Uto-Aztecan [yoo-toh-az-tek-uh n] Word Origin noun
- an American Indian language family, widespread from Idaho to Central America and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific: this family includes Hopi, Ute, Shoshone, Comanche, Nahuatl, Papago, Pima, and other languages.
adjective
- of or relating to Uto-Aztecan.
Origin of Uto-Aztecan 1891; Ute + -o- + Aztecan British Dictionary definitions for uto-aztecan Uto-Aztecan noun
- a family of North and Central American Indian languages including Nahuatl, Shoshone, Pima, and Ute
adjective
- of or relating to this family of languages or the peoples speaking them