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.