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ixpepetza.

Headword: 
ixpepetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to look carefully all around, scrutinizing everything, "to keep your eyes peeled"

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 222.

IPAspelling: 
iːʃpepetsɑ
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nin. Class and pret. unknown. may have a glottal stop after the first e. instance in the Florentine Codex is possibly an error for a reduplicated form of Molina's reflexive īxpetzoa, Class 2, with the same meaning. īxtli, some form of root petz- having to with shining, polishing. 222