Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• huehue,ueue, veue (obsolete spellings)

Nominal nuclear clause

huēhueh ‎(animate, plural huēhuētqueh)

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

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

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

     huēhuê, viejo.

Coordinate terms

• (sex): ilama
• (age): conētl, pilli

Derived terms

• huēhuētcātōntli

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.