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huehuehua.

Headword: 
huehuehua.
Principal English Translation: 

master of drums (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huēhuēhuah
IPAspelling: 
weːweːwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒHUĒHUAH master of drums / dueño de atabales, o guitarras (C) [(1)Cf.55v]. C contrast this with HUĒHUEHHUAH ‘master of old men.’ Only C glosses HUĒHUĒ-TL as ‘guitar.’ It specifically means the indigenous upright drum. See HUĒHUĒ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 84.