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huecapahuia.

Headword: 
huecapahuia.
Orthographic Variants: 
uecapauia
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑpɑwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uecapauia. nite. (pret. oniteuecapaui.) seguir a otro de lexos.
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: 

HUEHCAPAHUIĀ vt to keep one’s distance from something, someone / seguir a otro de lejos (M), apartarse de algo (R) [(1)Rp.83]. See HUEHCAPA, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 82.