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altepehua.

Headword: 
altepehua.
Principal English Translation: 

resident of a town (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āltepēhuah, altepeua, altepehuah
IPAspelling: 
ɑːltepeːwɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

altepeua. vezino de ciudad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀLTEPĒHUAH resident of a town / vecino de ciudad (M) See ĀLTEPĒ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.

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.

themes: 
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods