Principal English Translation:
combining form for the directional: "coming this way"; to come back
Horacio Carochi / English:
huāl- = directional prefix
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 502.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
directional prefix of verbs, signifying that the action is carried out in the direction of the speaker or point of reference. 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:
quihualcohuaz = he/she will buy it back