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huehue-.

Headword: 
huehue-.
Principal English Translation: 

old, patrimonial or inherited

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents huehue- in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

huehuecalli = inherited house, patrimonial house
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580–1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, 236.

huehuetlalli = patrimonial land, a special category of inherited land
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580–1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.

huehuemilli = patrimonial field, old field
huehuetlalmantli = patrimonial flat land
huehuexihuitl = the year according to the ancient calendar
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

huehue xihuitl xi. tochtli. = the year 11 Rabbit in the old style
(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 50–51.

The element huehue-, old, can be attached to such words as field, house, and property with the same effect, which according to Molina amounts to patrimonial. James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 158.