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hueica.

Headword: 
hueica.
Principal English Translation: 

in a grand and noble manner; or, for a long time (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ueica
IPAspelling: 
weːikɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ueica. alta y soberanamente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒICA in a grand, noble manner; for a long time / alta y soberanamente (M), largo tiempo (Z) [(7)Zp.10,25,41,75,141,155,206]. See HUĒ(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 85.