List with the best Riddles in Náhuatl and their translation

Nahuatl is a macro language used in Mexico (and other countries) before the colonization of the Spanish and that is still used in that country, since it is recognized by the General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples Furthermore, more than a million Mexicans have this native language. According to the investigations carried out, it originated approximately in the XNUMXth century and its use spread throughout much of the Mesoamerican area.

Due to the great use it had and the number of people who still practice it today (approximately 7 million people around the world), there is a lot of information about it on the network, from which it is possible to extract content of interest that People usually call their attention, such as the riddles in Nahuatl that we have compiled in the following list along with their translations into Spanish.

The best 35 riddles in Nahuatl

This indigenous or native language has a great variety of riddles, among which you will surely find some already known or popular in Spanish; In addition, both languages ​​are totally valid, so you can use them even if you don't know how to pronounce Nahuatl.

Maaske mas titlaakatl yes but mitschooktis 

• Meaning in Spanish: You have to guess: no matter how macho you are, it's going to make you cry
• Answer: the onion.

Wa na'atun na'ateche 'na'at le ba'ala': Jump'éel ts'ool wukp'éel u jool 

• Meaning in Spanish: Guess the riddle: Seven holes A single pumpkin
• Answer: Head.

Na'at le baola paalen: Ken xi iken si yaan jun tul joy kep K'eenken tu beelili

• Meaning in Spanish in Spanish:Don't you guess, kid! If you are going to cut firewood, a very lazy pig will look for you on the road.
• Answer: honeycomb.

Za zan tleino Tepetozcatl Quitoca momamatlaxcalotiuh Papalotl 

• Meaning in Spanish:Through the valley, colorful, she flutters clapping her hands like someone who throws tortillas
• Answer: the butterfly.

Chak u paach, sak u ts'u '

• Meaning in Spanish: Of red skin. Inside bleached.
• Answer: Radish or sweet potato.

See tosaasanil, see tosaasanil See ichpokatsin iitlakeen melaak pistik tomatl 

• Meaning in Spanish:You have not guessed: Who is the girl, with the huipil so tight?
• Answer: tomato.

Za zan tleino Icuitlaxcol quihuilana tepetozcatl quitoca huitzmallotl

• Meaning in Spanish: Guess by guessing: With the guts dragging through the valley it is passing
• Answer: the needle.

Awijchiw xik tyiel ndyuk sajrrok tyiel yow atajtüw xik tyiel ndxup sawüñ ütyiw ñipilan

• Meaning in Spanish: so that people can give their food. In a little boy I have to dance, after throwing myself and diving into the sea.
• Answer: the cast net.

Za zan tleino Chimalli itic tentica ca chilli 

• Meaning in Spanish:Small but peaked inside full of shields
• Answer: chili.

Lipan will be tlakomoli, westok waan nokweptok, for oksee side. 

• Meaning in Spanish:To the invited meal, even if it is a plate and spoon
• Answer: the tortilla.

Night kwak kiawi Notlakeenpatla Tepeetl

• Meaning in Spanish:An old man very alive every rain he changes his dress
• Answer: the hill.

Tu laabe, tulaabe, scratch nibe nápabe dxitá xquibe

• Meaning in Spanish:Who is he and who is he who on his neck carries his eggs backwards and forwards?
• Answer: The palm.

Zazan tleino aco cuitlaiaoalli mouiuixoa

• Meaning in Spanish: round at the top and paunchy besides, I shake myself and go screaming so you can dance.
• Answer: the maraca.

Natyek umbas ñikands umeajts nanbyur ulük nangan mi kej

• Meaning in Spanish: you will give yourself a feast ... Green on the outside you will see me and black teeth on the inside you will find. From my red heart sweet blood you will eat, will you guess?
• Answer: watermelon.

Xilaani, biétini lu dani, nápani chonna ne ti xiiñini

• Meaning in Spanish: How do you see it? Down the hill. And I have three feet. And a son who grinds How can you not see!
• Answer: mortar.

Uñijximeajts ajtsaj ximbas salñuwindxey makiejp op saltsankan makiejp ñity

• Meaning in Spanish: of leaf wrapped and tied with palm is my disguise. In my body of mass my heart of flesh you will find.
• Answer: the tamal.

Zazan tleino, cuatzocoltzin mictlan ommati. Here quittaz tozazaniltzin, tla ca nenca apilolli, ic atlacuihua

• Meaning in Spanish: cantarillo de palo that knows the region of the dead.
• Answer: the pitcher of water.

Zazan tleino, matlactin tepatlactli quimamamatimani. Here quittaz tozazaniltzin, tla ca nenca tozti

• Meaning in Spanish: What is the ten stones that one always carries with us?
• Answer: the ones.

See tosaasaanil, see tosaasaanil, see iixtetetsitsinte

• Meaning in Spanish: guess, guesser, one-eyed is it.
• Answer: the needle.

Za zan tleino Iztactetzintli quetzalli conmantica

• Meaning in Spanish: Guess, guess What is like a white stone, that quetzal feathers sprout from it?
• Answer: the onion

Neither cayúnini ma´cutiip i nor cazi´ni ma´ cayuuna ´ nor guiqu iiñenila ma´qué zuuyani

• Meaning in Spanish: guess, guessing. Whoever makes it does it by singing. Whoever buys it, buys it crying. Whoever uses it is no longer seeing it.
• Answer: the coffin.

Zan zan tleine cimalli itic tentica

• Meaning in Spanish: small but beaked, full of shields.
• Answer: chili.

Ñity ayaküw ximal xiel ayaküw xi lyej sanguoch atyily tyety nüty tyiel ximeajts axojtüw ñipilan

• Meaning in Spanish: My mind is covered with palm. My wooden feet are. People rest on me, because I stop the sun's rays.
• Answer: the bower.

Amalüw xik munxuey xik samal küty akiejp as najchow ximbas wüx satüng amb xa onds

• Meaning in Spanish: You have to guess! My body is made of reed and on my belly I wear a mecapal. With tamemes I come and go from the sea. Loaded with fish and corn for breakfast, lunch and even dinner.
• Answer: Brown.

Zazan tleino quetzalcomoctzin quetzalli conmantica

• Meaning in Spanish: guess it if you can: gray hair has up to the tip and some green feathers.
• Answer: the onion.

Tu laame, tu laame dé chemen á pa me dooxqui'me

• Meaning in Spanish: Guess again! Who on his back wears guts that you even see them?
• Answer: the shrimp.

Ridxabe huaxhinni rixána be siado ´

• Meaning in Spanish: a lady who makes a lot of waste every day. Stop in the morning and get pregnant at night.
• Answer: home.

Zazan tleino, xoxouhqui xicaltzintli, momochitl ontemi. Here qittaz tozazaniltzin, tla ca nenca ilhuicatl

• Meaning in Spanish: What is a blue gourd, planted with roasted corn, called momochtli?
• Answer: The starry sky

Zazan tleino, icuitlaxcol quihuilana, tepetozcatl quitoca. Here quittaz tozazaniltzin, tla ca nenca huitzmalot

• Meaning in Spanish: What is it that goes through a valley, and has its guts dragging?
• Answer: the needle sewing.

Tlake, tlake, tsikuini uan tsikuini I still love tikajasi

• Meaning in Spanish: What is, what is, that jumps and you do not reach it?
• Answer: Rabbit.

We hope you liked these riddles in Nahuatl, either for fun telling them or for some research work. If you know another or master the language, we would appreciate if you would leave a comment with more alternatives.