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hueyotl.

Headword: 
hueyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

great one, brave, warrior (an abstract form of huēy)

John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985), 137.

Orthographic Variants: 
hueiyotl, huēyōtl
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…nopiltzin noueyo quitoua yn chichimeca yn tepilhuan y mota motepeuh mamotocayoti = Mi pila, mi huello, dicen los tepilhuan chichimeca, tu padre, tu conquistador: que se nombre. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 193, 166.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
War, Conflict