yaotlapia.

Headword: 
yaotlapia.
Principal English Translation: 

to overlook and observe the country or seacoast from a watchtower (see Molina); to guard, to stand guard (see Chimalpahin)

Alonso de Molina: 

yaotlapia. ni. (pret. oniyaotlapix.) atalayar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlahca. yn onpeuhque Tiyacahuan Joldadostin ahҫonpohuallonmatlactin ҫan mochintin palacio nemi yn oyahque tlapiazque huey atenco Acapulco, yhuan ompa quichiazque yn omoteneuh la china acalli ynic aciquiuh. Auh yniqueilhuitl yn ipan Jueues. oc ceppa cenpohuallonnahui Tiyacahuan Joldadostin nican Mexico. onpeuhq̃. yn ompa hui omoteneuh acapu[lco a]hҫizque y yaotlapiazque = soldiers, warriors, set out, perhaps 50 of them, who are all stationed at the palace, who went to stand guard at the ocean shore at Acapulco and await there the arrival of the said ship from China. On the third day, Thursday, again soldiers, warriors, 24 of them, set out from Mexico here to reach the said Acapulco and stand guard (central Mexico, 1615)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 304–7.

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