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axcahua.

Headword: 
axcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

a person with many possessions, someone wealthy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āxcāhuah, axcaua
IPAspelling: 
ɑːʃkɑːwɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

axcaua. dueño de algo, o rico y prospero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

axcauaque. dueños de alguna cosa, o ricos y prosperos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀXCĀHUAH a person with many possessions, someone wealthy / dueño de algo, o rico y próspero (M)[(1)Cf.58v]. See ĀXCĀ(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 14.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The possessor of something, of property. Also used for a rich or prosperous person. Plural: axcahuaque. (See Molina)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

axca hua = propietario, que tiene bienes
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvii.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites