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caxhua.

Headword: 
caxhua.
Principal English Translation: 

one who possesses a bowl, vessel (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
caxhuah
IPAspelling: 
kɑʃwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

CAXHUAH one who possesses a bowl, vessel / dueño,y poseedor de la cosa...escudilla,o cajete (C) [(1)Cf.55v,(1)Rp.45]. C and R gives this and CAXEH as synonymous. See CAX(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 26.