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huehueloa.

Headword: 
huehueloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to destroy, undo, lay waste something (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehueloa
IPAspelling: 
wehweloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ueueloa. nitla. (pret. onitlaueuelo.) deshazer, desbaratar o derrocar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHHUELOĀ vt to destroy, undo, lay waste something / deshacer, desbaratar o derrocar algo (M) The internal glottal stop is not attested in X but does appear in Z and R. redup. HUELOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83–84.