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huehuepol.

Headword: 
huehuepol.
Principal English Translation: 

an especially old person (see Molina); a big old man (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehuepul, uehuepol, huehuepul
Alonso de Molina: 

ueuepul. vejarron, o viejo ruin.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

huehuepol = a big old man; huehuepopol = big old men
Thelma Sullivan, Wick R. Miller, and Karen Dakin, Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar (1988), 22.

themes: 
Aging (People, Things)