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a place name; e.g. Nuestra Señora de La Piedad Huehuetlan, a part of Mexico City

(central Mexico, 1613)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 256–257.

Orthographic Variants: 
huehuehtlahtolli

ancient ones' accounts; the words of the elders

Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 52.

weːwehtɬɑhtoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetlatolli

ancient history; or, the sayings of elders (see Molina); rhetorical orations (see Thelma Sullivan)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetlatquitl

patrimonial property (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehueto
Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetocaitl

a place name, an indigenous community in what is now the state of Mexico

Orthographic Variants: 
vevetque

the elders, seniors, old people (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetzacqui

one who makes kettle-drums (see Molina)

wehwetskɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
ueuetzca

to laugh (in peals)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 218.

to laugh after all.
weːwetskɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
huēhuetzcaliztli

guffaw (see Karttunen)

wewetskɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetzcani

smiling, cheerful, bright, pleasant

Orthographic Variants: 
ueuetzonqui

the person who plays the huehuetl, the standing drum with the skin on the top

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uehuetzotzona

to play kettle drums (see Molina)

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uehuetzotzonani

the kettle-drum maker who plays them, too (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetzotzonqui

the kettle-drum maker who plays them, too (see Molina)

weːwetspɑl
Orthographic Variants: 
huēhuetzpal

iguana (see Karttunen)

wehwetskiːtiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetzquitia

to make others laugh, saying funny things (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehueueyohuan