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ixpepena.

Headword: 
ixpepena.
Principal English Translation: 

to choose others by there face or visage (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
iːʃpehpenɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ixpepena. nite. (pret. oniteixpepen.) escoger a algunos por los rostros o caras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 46v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXPEHPEN(A) vt to choose or select something, to pick something out on the basis of its appearance / escoger a algunos por los rostros o caras (M), lo elige, lo escoje, lo selecciona (T) [(3)Tp.217]. See ĪX-TLI, PEHPEN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 117.