something slippery, crumbly (see Karttunen); phlegm (see Sahagún) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 138.
Orthographic Variants:
alāhuac
IPAspelling:
ɑlɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen:
ALĀHUAC something slippery, crumbly / lo mismo es que alactic (cosa deleznable) (M) see ALĀHU(A) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.