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icopi.

Headword: 
icopi.
Principal English Translation: 

to close the eyes (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
ihkopi
Alonso de Molina: 

icopi. n. (pret. onicop.) cerrar los ojos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

IHCOP(I) to wink, blink, close the eyes / cerrar los ojos (M), pestañea … cierra los ojos (Z) [(3)Zp.27,98,158].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 97.