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huehuehua.

Headword: 
huehuehua.
Principal English Translation: 

master of old men (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huēhuehhuah
IPAspelling: 
weːwehwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒHUEHHUAH master of old men / dueño de viejos (C) [(1)Cf.55v]. This appears as a grammatical example in a discussion of the possessor suffixes and may have no real referent. It contrasts with HUĒHUĒHUAH ‘master of drums.’ See HUĒHUEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 84.

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