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yenepa.

Headword: 
yenepa.
Principal English Translation: 

times gone by; a long time ago; further along; more over that way

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research; Molina; Olmos

Orthographic Variants: 
ye nepa
Alonso de Molina: 

yenepa. aessotra vanda, o a essotra parte, o mas alla vn poco.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Andrés de Olmos: 

Oc achi nepa, oc achi nechca, oc achi nechcapa, oc achi ne, ye nepa, mas alla, o un poco mas alla
Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua Mexicana, ed. Rémi Siméon, facsimile edition ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Guadalajara: Edmundo Aviña Levy, 1972), 188.

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