ahua tepehua.

Headword: 
ahua tepehua.
Principal English Translation: 

a citizen or resident of the pueblo (of the altepetl)

Orthographic Variants: 
aua tepeua, ahua tepeua
Alonso de Molina: 

aua, tepeua. ciudadano, o vezino 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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPĒHUAH This possessor derivation from TEPĒ-TL 'hill' is conventionally paired with the ĀHUAH, the possessor derivation of Ā-TL, the whole phrase meaning 'resident of a town.'
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 229.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

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

themes: 
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods