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alahuac.

Headword: 
alahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

something slippery, crumbly (see Karttunen); phlegm (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 138.

Orthographic Variants: 
alāhuac
IPAspelling: 
ɑlɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

ALĀHUAC something slippery, crumbly / lo mismo es que alactic (cosa deleznable) (M) see ALĀHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.