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ahuacan.
Headword:
ahuacan.
Principal English Translation:
place of the persons who have water; part of a longer expression referring to towns: in ahuacan in tepehuacan = in the towns; water-possessor place, hill-possessor place; part of altepetl (atl + tepetl) (SW)
IPAspelling:
ɑːwɑhkɑːn
Attestations from sources in English:
Ye yuh mahtlacxihuitl in opehualoc in atl in tepetl México, in ye omoman in mitl, in chimalli, in ye nohhuian ontlamatcaman in ahuacan, in tepehuacan. = It had been ten years since the altepetl [city-state] of Mexico had been conquered and the weapons of war had been laid down, and peace reigned in the altepetls all around....