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huei apan.

Headword: 
huei apan.
Principal English Translation: 

on the sea, on the ocean (huey atl = a large body of water; plus -pan, on) (central Mexico, 1615)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 294–295.

Orthographic Variants: 
huey apan
Attestations from sources in English: 

Axcan martes ynic .3. mani Metztli Marҫo de 1615 años. yhcuac nican Mexico onpeuhque onpohualtin yn Portuguestin ytencopatzinco visurrey ompa hui yaotlapiazque y huey atenco Acapolco, ypampa omachiztico nican Mexico oncan ohuallaque yn tlahueliloque ỹ motenehua landenses, yhuan pichilinquez, ychtecque huey apan nemi = Today, Tuesday the 3rd of the month of March of the year 1615, was when 40 Portuguese set out from Mexico here by order of the viceroy; they are going to stand guard at the seashore at Acapulco, because it became known here in Mexico that the wicked people called the Flemish and pirates, thieves who go on the sea, had come there (central Mexico, 1615)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 296–7.