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yocoxca.

Headword: 
yocoxca.
Principal English Translation: 

humbly, slowly, gently, carefully, etc. (see Molina); in a calm, peaceful manner (Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yocuxca
IPAspelling: 
yoːkoʃkɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

yocoxca. mansa o pacificamente. aduerbi.o
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 39v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
yucuxca. mansa y pacificamente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 44r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YŌCOXCĀ in a calm, peaceful manner / mansa o pacíficamente (M) This is derived from YŌCOY(A) with considerable extension of meaning.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 339.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

pret. agentive as adverbial particle. calmly, peacefully. Often follows pāccā or ihuiān in a pair, apparently from a verb yōcoya, but semantic relationship to the known verb of that shape not clear.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 242.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quimoxexelhuysque pacayocoxca quicepancuasque = lo partan y lo coman en paz hermanablemente (Zempoala, "1610", but probably Techialoyan -related)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 80–81.

yocuxcan pacca... çan no yhuiyan pacca yocuxca = de manera pacífica... así también de manera pacífica (Culhuacan, 1580)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 226–227.

ic paca yocoxca = en sosiego, en calma
Xavier Noguez, Códice Techialoyan de San Pedro Tototepec (Estado de México), México, El Colegio Mexiquense A.C. y Gobierno del Estado de México, 1999), 29.