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tetahuan.

Headword: 
tetahuan.
Principal English Translation: 

"the fathers"
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 154.

Orthographic Variants: 
tetauan
Alonso de Molina: 

tetauan. padres de algunos.
71m2-105v. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

In some cases, we see this used as another name for huehuetque, elders.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent