huehueh

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• (Cholula): huehue

Noun

huehueh

1. old

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• huehue, ueue, veue (obsolete spellings)

Etymology

Reduplicated from the root of huēyi (“it is something large; great”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈwéː.weʔ]

Noun

huēhueh (animate, plural huēhuētqueh)

1. elderly man
   • 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)

     Veue, viejo, noueuetcauh. ... Ueue, viejo. Ueuetque.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1645, Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de todos sus adverbios, ed. by James Lockhart (2001)

     huēhuê, viejo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Coordinate terms

• (sex): ilama
• (age): conētl, pilli

Derived terms

• huēhuētcātōntli

Descendants

• Spanish: El Güegüense

References

• Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 45.
• Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 84.
• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 218.