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ihuicpa.

Headword: 
ihuicpa.
Principal English Translation: 

to or toward it, someplace, him, her; also, seen to mean for or against (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
yhuicpa
Attestations from sources in English: 

Neteilhuiliz tlatoltin ipan quilhuia posesion, o propiedad in tlaltin inhuan atl, in quipehualtiz c altepetl occe, anoce ihuicpa aca ce axcahua, anozo inin inuicpa altepetl = Los juicios sobre posesion o propiedad de tierras u aguas que promueva un pueblo contra otro o contra algun propietario particula o este contra aquél
Karen Dakin, Mercedes Montes de Oca, Claudia Parodi, Visiones del encuentro de dos mundos en América (2009), p. 210.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ihuicpa in tecualan = contra el enojo = against anger;
inhuicpa in azcameh ahcemeleh = contra hormigas revoltosas = against unruly ants;
ihuicpa in totonqui = para la fiebre = for fevers;
ihuicpa in ciyahuiztli auh in coacihuiztli = para la fatiga y los dolores del cuerpo = for fatigue and body pains
Francisco X. Alarcón y ‎Odilia Galván Rodríguez, Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation (2019).

copina in ihuicpa = sacar de, extraer de
Enrique García Escamilla, Tlahtolnahuatilli: Náhuatl clásico (1995), p. 11.

oquiz yahua yaoquizqui in ihuicpa Tenayocan = Salió ayer de Tenayuca el soldado.
Enrique García Escamilla, Tlahtolnahuatilli (1994), p. 36