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huelic.

Headword: 
huelic.
Principal English Translation: 

something delicious, pleasing (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uelic
IPAspelling: 
weːlik
Alonso de Molina: 

uelic. cosa sabrosa y gustosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒLIC something delicious, pleasing / cosa sabrosa y gustosa (M) Z and X mark the vowel of the second syllable long, but T has it short.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 86.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

huelic (adjective) = sweet, pleasant, fragrant Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 154.

themes: 
Emotions
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)