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Michhuacan.

Headword: 
Michhuacan.
Principal English Translation: 

the place name for what is today Michoacan (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
michhuahcān, michuacan, michoacan
IPAspelling: 
mitʃwɑhkɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

MICHHUAHCĀN place name Michoacan [(1)Cf.57r]. See MICHHUA, -CAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 146.