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

Alternative forms

• ueuetl

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)

   • 2019, “Itlach In Mictlantecuhtli”, performed by Cemican:

     Can comoni, con comoni, huehuetl

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• mecahuehuetl

See also

• teponaztli

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.