someone who possesses, has control over water (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
āhuah
IPAspelling:
ɑːwɑh
Frances Karttunen:
ĀHUAH someone who possesses, has control over water / dueño del agua (C) this is generally found in the phrase ĀHUAH TEPĒHUAH ´resident of a town´ from ĀLTEPĒ-TL ´town.´ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 8.