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mihua.

Headword: 
mihua.
Principal English Translation: 

a possessor of arrows (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mīhuah
IPAspelling: 
miːwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

MĪHUAH possessor of arrows / el que tiene flechas, el dueño de las flechas (K) [(1)Cf. 55V]. See MĪ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents mihua in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry