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pilhua.

Headword: 
pilhua.
Principal English Translation: 

one who has children (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pilhuah
IPAspelling: 
pilwɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

pilhua. persona que tiene hijos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PILHUAH one who has children / persona que tiene hijos (M) See -PIL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 195.

Attestations from sources in English: 

â njcan anpilhoacateuhtlamattoque = Here are ye who are considered parents (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 186.

ma oc xonpilhoacateuhtlamattocan = Consider yourselves as parents (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 186.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent