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yecpiya.

Headword: 
yecpiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to take good care of something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yēcpiya
IPAspelling: 
yeːkpiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

YĒCPIY(A) vt; pret: -PIX~-PĪX to take good care of something / lo tiene bien, lo ahorra (T) [(3)Tp.219]. See YĒC-TLI, PIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 337.