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cecpa.

Headword: 
cecpa.
Principal English Translation: 

once, one time

Orthographic Variants: 
ceppa
Attestations from sources in English: 

ceppa (more common than cecpa); just as oppa will appear where ocpa might have been the original form
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 101; see also paragraph 4 on 105.