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huecapaniuhqui.

Headword: 
huecapaniuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a person of honor and high status (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uecapaniuhqui, huecapan iuhqui
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑpɑniwki
Alonso de Molina: 

uecapaniuhqui. enxalzado y sublimado en honra y estado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHCAPANIUHQUI someone of honor and high estate / ensalzado y sublimado en honra y estado (M) (I)Rp.83]. This implies HUEHCAPANIHU(I). HUEHCAPANIUHQUI also appears in P with the glottal stop marked. See HUEHCAPAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites