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hualmohuica.

Headword: 
hualmohuica.
Principal English Translation: 

to carry; to come (reverential)

Orthographic Variants: 
ualmohuica, valmouica, hualmouica, ualmouica
Alonso de Molina: 

ualmouica. (pret. oualmouicac.) venir alguna persona honrada. es reuerencial.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in in ilhuicac tetlauhtilli in ittoca Confirmacion, cenca anquimocuitlahuizque in yquac hualmohuica in teopixcatlatoque in ipan in amaltepeuh inic mochintin quiçelizque = this heavenly mercy called confirmation. You will take great care when the ruler-priests come to your altepetls that all will receive it
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 145.

hualmohuicac = came (speaking of a revered person)
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xihualmohuica ximotlali = Ven, siéntate. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 131.

in in ilhuicac tetlauhtilli in ittoca Confirmacion, cenca anquimocuitlahuizque in yquac hualmohuica in teopixcatlatoque in ipan in amaltepeuh inic mochintin quiçelizque = esta merced y fauor del Cielo (que se llama Confirmacion) teniendo muy gran cuydado quando van los Prelados a vuestros Pueblos para que no quede ninguno sin recebirla
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 144–145.

ma ocnican hualmohuica = que se llegue aqui
Pedro de Arenas, Vocabulario Manual de las Lenguas Castellana, y Mexicana (Mexico: Henrico Martínez, 1611), 5.