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-huelmanca.

Headword: 
-huelmanca.
Principal English Translation: 

well formed, well placed, in good order (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
-velmanca
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ivelmanca in altepetl = la buena policiá del pueblo ivelnemitiloca = la vida correcta (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 254–255.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)