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Huetl.

Headword: 
Huetl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
Vetl, Huetzin, Uetl, Uetzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca vetl = named Huetl (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 150–151.

VII Calli xihuitl yehuatl contzinti yn tlahtocayotl Mexico Tenochtitlan ye tlahtocati Auh no yquac yn ipan in xihuitl yn momiquilli yn Oçomatzin Atlauhtecatl Teuhctli tlahtohuani Atlauhtlan Tenanco yn tlahtocat matlac xihuitl auh çan niman ypan in yn xihuitl motlahtocatlalli yn ipiltzin ytoca Huetzin Atlauhtecatl Teuhctli mochiuh yn Atlauhtlan Tenanco
3 Relación de Chimalpahin, f. 150r Quoted in TEMOA, https://temoa.iib.unam.mx/3-relacion-de-chimalpahin/150r.

themes: 
Names (for people, deities)