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hueyatl.

Headword: 
hueyatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the sea, ocean (see Molina), a river (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ueiatl, huey atl, hueiatl
IPAspelling: 
weːiɑːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

ueiatl. el mar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒIĀ-TL river, sea / río, mar (Z) [(3)Zp.81,110,155,(3)Xp.49,100]. See HUĒ(I), Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 85.

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