chamahuac. | Nahuatl Dictionary

chamahuac.

Headword:

chamahuac.

Principal English Translation:

thick, dense (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

chamāhuac, chamauac, chamaoac

IPAspelling:

tʃɑmɑːwɑk

Alonso de Molina:

chamauac. lo mismo es que chamactic.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

CHAMĀHUAC thick, dense / cosa gorda y crecida, o cosa vasta como lana gruesa (M), grueso (....maiz, frijol, etc.) (T) [(2)Tp.123,136]. M gives this as synonymous with chamactic. Z has the variant CHACHĀNTIC. See CHAMĀHU(A), CHACHĀNTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.

Attestations from sources in English:

chamaoac = coarse (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 111.