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huehuetcayotl.

Headword: 
huehuetcayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

old age (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uehuetcayotl
IPAspelling: 
weːwetkɑːyoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

ueuetcayotl. edad de viejos, o vejedad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒHUETCĀYŌ-TL old age / edad de viejos o vejedad (M), vejez (T) [(2)Tp.110,111]. See HUĒHUEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 85.

themes: 
Aging (People, Things)