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.