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huecacayotl.

Headword: 
huecacayotl.
Orthographic Variants: 
uecacayotl
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑkɑyoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

uecacayotl. cosa que se trae de acarreo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHCACAYŌ-TL something brought from afar; someone who has come from afar, wanderer / cosa que se trae de acarreo (M) peregrino (Z) [(1)Zp.154]. See HUEHCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 82.