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neca.

Headword: 
neca.
Principal English Translation: 

to be there (distant) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēcah
IPAspelling: 
neːkɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

neca. helo alli, o hela alli, o alli esta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 064r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĒCAH to be there (distant) [(5)TP.167]. This is a compound of the deictic particle NĒ and the verb CĀ. It appears to have been lexicalized to function as a demonstrative particle, but its plural retains the verbal plural form of -CĀ, -CATEH. See NĒ, the verb CĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.