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huehuecauhtica.

Headword: 
huehuecauhtica.
Principal English Translation: 

sometimes, now and then (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huehhuehcāuhtica
IPAspelling: 
wehwehkɑːwtikɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ueuecauhtica. de tarde en tarde o raramente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHHUEHCĀUHTICA sometimes, now and then / de tarde en tarde o raremente (M) [(1)Rp.83]. redup. HUEHCĀUHTICA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.