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huecauhtata.

Headword: 
huecauhtata.
Principal English Translation: 

ancestor (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huehcāuhtātah
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑːwtɑːtɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHCĀUHTĀTAH ancestor / antecesor, ancestro (Z) [(2)Zp.11,155]. Z also has the variant HUEHCĀUHTĒTĀT. See HUEHCĀUH, TAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.

themes: 
Aging (People, Things)
Family, Kinship, Descent
See also: 
huecauh.
tatli.