huehueh

== Central Nahuatl == === Alternative forms === (Cholula): huehue === Noun === huehueh old == Classical Nahuatl == === Alternative forms === huehue, ueue, veue (obsolete spellings) === Etymology === Reduplicated from the root of huēyi (“it is something large; great”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈwéː.weʔ] === 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) ==== Coordinate terms ==== (sex): ilama (age): conētl, pilli ==== Derived terms ==== huēhuētcātōntli ==== 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.