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huepollotl.

Headword: 
huepollotl.
Principal English Translation: 

close familial relationship, such as brother-in-law; sister-in-law; etc.

Orthographic Variants: 
uepollotl, vepollotl
IPAspelling: 
wehpoːlloːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

uepollotl. parentesco de afinidad y cuñadez
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cuix nelli quichiuaznequi preytos ynic nechixnamiquiz quil quitlaniznequi arimentos yn amohuepol coyouaca = is it true? -- that your brother-in-law who is in Coyoacan wants to bring suit complaining against me (Mexico City, 1598)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 33, 206–207.

-huepol = the form, when possessed, for one's same-generation in-law of the opposite gender
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 40.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn tehuantzin yn tinouepoltzin = tu que eres mi cuñado
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 214–215.

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