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ahuaque tepehuaque.

Headword: 
ahuaque tepehuaque.
Principal English Translation: 

citizens of the pueblo (of the altepetl)

Orthographic Variants: 
auaque tepeuaque
Alonso de Molina: 

auaque tepeuaque. ciudadanos, o vezinos de pueblo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Literally, these are the possessors of the water (atl) and possessors of the hills (tepetl).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

aua tepeua = ciudadano (singular)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvii.

themes: 
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