huehuetl
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edithuehuetl (plural huehuetls)
- An ancient Mesoamerican percussion instrument, an upright tubular drum made from a wooden body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base, with skin stretched over the top, and played by hand or with a mallet.
Classical Nahuatl
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edithuēhuētl
- huehuetl
- 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
- ueuetl, atabal, noueueuh, mi atabal.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2019, “Itlach In Mictlantecuhtli”, performed by Cemican:
- Can comoni, con comoni, huehuetl
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
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edit- Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 222.
- Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 85.
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 218.