The story
- Classical Nahuatl · derived fromānāhuac“land by the waters”
- Spanish · borrowed fromAnáhuac
- English todayAnahuac
Borrowed from Spanish Anáhuac, in turn derived from Classical Nahuatl ānāhuac (“land by the waters”), made of atl (“water”) + nahuac (“close to”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.