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huei atl.

Headword: 
huei atl.
Principal English Translation: 

a large body of water; seen to refer to the lake around Mexico City

(central Mexico, 1614)
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), 292–293.

Orthographic Variants: 
huey atl
Attestations from sources in English: 

licenciado Don Pedro de Otalora Presidente ỹ nican Mexico audiencia real, yn oquimottilito. yn oquimoyahualhuito nohuiyampa in techyahualotoc huey atl. ompa hualmopehualtito yn xuchimilco oquimottilito atl, yn quenin mani yc niman ompa moquixtito yn Tulyahualco, niman moquixtito cuitlatetelco, niman yc ompa moquixtito yn ayotzinco, niman moquixtito chalco atenco, niman moquixtito chimalhuacan atẽco, niman moquixtito yn ipan huey altepetl Tetzcuco = licenciado don Pedro de Otalora, president of the Royal Audiencia here in Mexico, left Mexico to go to inspect and to go all around the great lake that surrounds us. He began in Xochimilco, inspecting the level of the water; then he passed through Tolyahualco; then he passed Cuitlatetelco; then he passed through Ayotzinco; then he passed through Chalco Atenco; then he passed through Chimalhuacan Atenco; then he passed through the great altepetl of Tetzcoco (central Mexico, 1614)
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), 292–3.

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