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huecachane.

Headword: 
huecachane.
Principal English Translation: 

foreigner, stranger (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huehcachāneh, veca chane, hueca chane
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑtʃɑːneh
Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHCACHĀNEH foreigner, stranger / extranjero o advenedizo (M) [(2)Zp.58,154]. See HUEHCA, CHĀNEH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 82.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh in veca chane yn tlaquimacazque in callali yz centlatoltica yez in tlatoque honcan quitzontequizque in nin netlatocanonotzayan yn cabildo = Y si a algún forastero le dan un solar, ha de ser por acuerdo de los tlatoanis que ahí juzgarán en el cabildo (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 268–269.

See also: 
hueca chane.