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nepaca.

Headword: 
nepaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to be at a distance (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēpacah
IPAspelling: 
neːpɑkɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

nepaca. helo alli, o helo alla, o alli esta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 68v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĒPACAH to be at a distance / helo allí o helo allá o allí está (M), de aquel lado (Z) [(1)Cf.16v,(5)Zp.75,82,143,177). See NĒPA, the verb CĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 169.