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nahualcahua.

Headword: 
nahualcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to leave behind surreptitiously

Attestations from sources in English: 

ca nel otechnahualcauh y noquichtiuh yn huitzillopochtli = For truly my elder brother Huitzilopochtli has surreptitiously abandoned us. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 78–79.