a person of honor and high status (see Karttunen and Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
uecapaniuhqui, huecapan iuhqui
IPAspelling:
wehkɑpɑniwki
Alonso de Molina:
uecapaniuhqui. enxalzado y sublimado en honra 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:
HUEHCAPANIUHQUI someone of honor and high estate / ensalzado y sublimado en honra y estado (M) (I)Rp.83]. This implies HUEHCAPANIHU(I). HUEHCAPANIUHQUI also appears in P with the glottal stop marked. See HUEHCAPAN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.