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huehueitzin.

Headword: 
huehueitzin.
Principal English Translation: 

something middling large (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huēhuēihtzin
IPAspelling: 
weːweːihtsin
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒHUĒIHTZIN something middling large / grandecito (T) [(2)Tp.111]. This is one of the cases where glottal stop intervenes between the stem and –TZIN. See HUĒ(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 84.