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.