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petlahuacahua.

Headword: 
petlahuacahua.
Principal English Translation: 

master of the possessors of mats, petates (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
petlahuahcāhuah
IPAspelling: 
petɬɑwɑhkɑːwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

PETLAHUAHCĀHUAH master of the possessors of mats, petates / señor de los dueños de las esteras y petates (C) [(1)Cf.56r]. See PETLAHUAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 192.