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nechcapa.

Headword: 
nechcapa.
Principal English Translation: 

to, from there (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
netʃkɑpɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

nechcapa. alli. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 64v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NECHCAPA to, from there / allí (M) [(2)Cf.89v]. See NECHCA, -PA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

nechcapa = over there (allí; must be able to see object or place referred to)
when preceded by "ye" = a while ago, sometime ago
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), need to find the location

Andrés de Olmos: 

Nepa, ompa, nechca, nechcapa, alli, de alli, por alli, a alli, o aculla, de aculla, por aculla, a aculla.
Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 188.