Eight decades after the Spanish conquest, Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc around 1598 first recorded a folk etymology, which accordingly named the city of Aztlán as a variant meaning of “the place of snowy egrets” from the Nahuatl word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand... Eight decades after the Spanish conquest, Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc around 1598 first recorded a folk etymology, which accordingly named the city of Aztlán as a variant meaning of “the place of snowy egrets” from the Nahuatl word.