in this direction; back (from a distant time to now)
Orthographic Variants:
ual, val
IPAspelling:
wɑːl
Alonso de Molina:
ual. haziaca. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
HUĀL- directional prefix hither, in this direction / hacia acá (M) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 80.