Principal English Translation:
resident of a town (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
āltepēhuah, altepeua, altepehuah
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
āltepēhuah = inhabitant or official of an altepetl. āltepētl, -huah
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 210.
Attestations from sources in English:
altepeva (altepehua) = citizen of a pueblo
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl studies with James Lockhart.