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Central Nahuatl
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Noun
huehueh
- old
Classical Nahuatl
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Etymology
Reduplicated from the root of huēyi (“it is something large; great”).
Pronunciation
Noun
huēhueh (animate, plural huēhuētqueh)
- elderly man
- 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
- 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de todos sus adverbios, ed. by James Lockhart (2001)
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References
- Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 45.
- Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 84.
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 218.