huehueh

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Central Nahuatl

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Noun

huehueh

  1. 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)

  1. elderly man
    • 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
      Veue, viejo, noueuetcauh. ... Ueue, viejo. Ueuetque.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de todos sus adverbios, ed. by James Lockhart (2001)
      huēhuê, viejo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Descendants

  • Spanish: El Güegüense

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.
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