to gain honor and high status (see Molina and Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
uecapanihui
IPAspelling:
wehkɑpɑniwi
Alonso de Molina:
uecapaniui. ni. (pret. oniuecapaniuh.) subir, o crecer en honra, dignidad y estado. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
HUEHCAPANIHU(I) to gain honor and high estate / subir o crecer en honor, dignidad y estado (M) This is implied by HUEHCAPANIUHQUI Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.