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huahuana.

Headword: 
huahuana.
Principal English Translation: 

make stripes or striations in something; to scrape; or, to treat hides

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), 217.

Orthographic Variants: 
uahuana
IPAspelling: 
wɑwɑnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

uauana. nitla. (pret. onitlauauan.) escaruar, o hazer rayas enla tierra, reglar papel, trazar o debuxar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUAHUAN(A) vt to scratch, scrape something, to incise lines on something / escarbar o hacer rayas en la tierra, reglar papel, trazar o dibujar algo (M), lo raspa (T) Z has a long vowel in the second syllable and in one attestation has the reflex of a glottal stop at the end of the first syllable. X consistently has a long vowel in the second syllable, while T consistently has a short one. HUAHUANILIĀ applic. HUAHUAN(A) HUAHUANALŌ nonact. HUAHUAN(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 80.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 2: ōnichuahuan. the second a may be long.
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), 217.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents huahuana in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Olman oncan quipolloque yn chaneque catca yn olmeca oncan quincacalque quiuauanque yehuantin yn tlalpolloque yn icxicouatl yn quetzalteueyac yn tezcauitzil yn tololouitzin = Olman. Allí destruyeron a los habitantes, a los olmeca. Allí los sacrificaron por flechamiento, los "rayaron", ellos Icxicouatl, Quetzalteueyac, Tezcauitzil y Tololuitzin, conquistaron la tierra. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 145.