cale.

Headword: 
cale.
Principal English Translation: 

householder, family head

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), 212.

Orthographic Variants: 
caleh, calleh, calle
IPAspelling: 
kɑleh
Alonso de Molina: 

cale. dueño o señor dela casa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CALEH guardian of the household, householder / dueño de la casa (M) See CAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

calli, -eh.

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), 212.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent