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occepa.

Headword: 
occepa.
Principal English Translation: 

again, once again

Orthographic Variants: 
oc ceppa, hoccepan
Alonso de Molina: 

Occepa. otra vez. Aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 75r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Occepa iuhcan yez, occeppa iuh tlamaniz, in iquin in canin. = Once again it shall be, once again it shall exist, sometime, somewhere.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 126–127.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

1493 ypa hoccepan poliuh Xaltepec. = 1493 En él otra vez fue derrortado Xaltepec. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 122–123.