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huecapanihui.

Headword: 
huecapanihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to gain honor and high status (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uecapanihui
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑpɑniwi
Alonso de Molina: 

uecapaniui. ni. (pret. oniuecapaniuh.) subir, o crecer en honra, dignidad 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: 

HUEHCAPANIHU(I) to gain honor and high estate / subir o crecer en honor, dignidad y estado (M) This is implied by HUEHCAPANIUHQUI
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites