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ixquichca.

Headword: 
ixquichca.
Principal English Translation: 

as far as; until; up to there; up to that point in time

Orthographic Variants: 
ixquich ca, yxquich ca, yxquichcapa, yxquichcanpa, yxquichcampa, ixquichcapa, ixquichcanpa, ixquichcampa, īxquichca
IPAspelling: 
iːʃkitʃkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ixquichca. hasta tanto, o hasta tal tiempo. (aduerbio.)
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 47r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXQUICHCA up to or from a point, until or from a certain time / hasta tanto o hasta tal tiempo (M), desde aqui, desde alli, y desde allá (C) See ĪXQUICH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 118.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

īxquichca = from a given place
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 504.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ixquich canpa = from here to there
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency