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nopan.

Headword: 
nopan.
Principal English Translation: 

about me, or on top of me

Alonso de Molina: 

nopan. sobre mi, o encima de mi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 73v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh ynic cenca vei tetl nopan ca, yhuan ynic cenca huey quauitl nopan onoc ynic nitlalactoc, yzcan notoneuiztlatol nochichinaquiztlatol = But it is as if a great punishing stone and tree lie upon me, as if I lie buried in the earth. Here are my words of pain and torment (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 214–215.

yn nopan = for me
Beyond the Codices, 36n12.