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Colhua.

Headword: 
Colhua.
Principal English Translation: 

resident of Culhuacan (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cōlhuah, Culhua
IPAspelling: 
koːlwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

CŌLHUAH pl: CŌLHUAHQUEH resident of Culhuacan / natural de Culhuacán (K) [(1)Cf.57r].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 40.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ticolvaque = somos Colhuas (Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 185.