to keep watch, to be vigilant; to watch over or guard something (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
īxxōtiā
IPAspelling:
iːʃʃoːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen:
ĪXXŌTIĀ vrefl,vt to keep watch, to be vigilant; to watch over or guard something / se cuida, se vigila (T) , cuida (T) ((6)Tp.144,230). The transitive form is attested only with the prefix TLA-, which may be fused to form an intransitive verb. See ĪXXŌ-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 122.