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canahuac.

Headword: 
canahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

something narrow

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.

IPAspelling: 
kɑnɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

CANĀHUAC something flan and thin / cosa delgada …. lienzo, o manta delgada de algodón (M) See CANĀHU(A), CANACTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 24.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

canāhuac. pret. agentive from canāhua, to be or become narrow.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.

Attestations from sources in English: 

canahuac tilmahtli = thin cape
canahuactene [tilmahtli] = thin, bordered cape
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 185.