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cihuahua.

Headword: 
cihuahua.
Principal English Translation: 

married man

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), 215.

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuaua
Alonso de Molina: 

ciuaua. marido, hombre casado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

cihuātl, huah.
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), 215.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cihuahuaque = plural form

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Izcate yn cihuahuaque, ontzontli ipan nahtecpantli ipan matlactli omei = En este lugar, se cuentan como personas casadas, ochocientas noventa y tres [hablando, en realidad, de hombres que tienen esposas; cihuahuaque, que es el plural de cihuahua] (ca. 1540, Cuernavaca)
Ismael Díaz Cadena, "Libro de tributos del Marquesado del Valle. Texto en español y náhuatl," Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Cuadernos de la Biblioteca, Serie Investigación no. 5, pp. 2, 46.