one's servant; or, inhabitants (of a house or a neighborhood) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
-nencāhuān
IPAspelling:
-nenkɑːwɑːn
Frances Karttunen:
-NENCĀHUĀN one's servant / mi criado (M for first pers. sg. possessor) [(1)Cf.119v]. This contrasts in vowel length with the preterit forms of the verbs NĒNCĀHU(A) 'to leave something undone' and NĒN-CĀHU(I) 'to be in vain.' See NENQUI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 167.