huehuetl

English

Noun

huehuetl (plural huehuetls)

  1. 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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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /weːweːtɬ/

Noun

huēhuētl

  1. 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)

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References

  • 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.
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