to take care of things, to stand watch (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlahpiya
IPAspelling:
tɬɑhpiyɑ
Frances Karttunen:
TLAHPIY(A) pret: TLAHPIX to take care of things, to stand watch / cuida (cosas) (Z). This is attested across all sources and implies a verb *(I)HPIY(A) to which the nonspecific object prefix TLA –has become fused to form an intransitive verb. See PIY(A).
TLAHPIYALIĀ applic. TLAHPIY(A).
*(I)HPIY(A) See TLAHPIY(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 262.