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huehuetzonqui.

Headword: 
huehuetzonqui.
Principal English Translation: 

the person who plays the huehuetl, the standing drum with the skin on the top

Orthographic Variants: 
ueuetzonqui
Attestations from sources in English: 

"in tlatzotzonqui, in huêhuêtzonqui, teponazoh, teponazoâni" = the beater of drums--the ground drums, the two-toned drums; two-toned drum player (as published in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlatzotzonqui, originally from the Florentine Codex, Book 4)