huehuetl

== English == === Noun === huehuetl (plural huehuetls) (music) An ancient Mesoamerican percussion instrument, an upright tubular drum made from a wooden body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base, with skin stretched over the top, and played by hand or with a mallet. == Classical Nahuatl == === Alternative forms === ueuetl === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /weːweːtɬ/ === Noun === huēhuētl huehuetl 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875) ==== Derived terms ==== mecahuehuetl === See also === teponaztli === References === Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 222. Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 85. Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 218.