yeppa yuhqui.

Headword: 
yeppa yuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

it used to be like that (adverb) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yeppa iuhqui, ieppa iuhqui
Alonso de Molina: 

yeppa yuhqui. de antes era asi eso. adverbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yeppa yuhqui = formerly, it was there
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 168.