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pepeyaca.

Headword: 
pepeyaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to spill, spread, scatter (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pepeyɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PEPEYACA to spill, spread, scatter / desparrama (Z) [(2)Zp.44,182]. M has pepeyoca 'for water or fields to shine in the light of the sun or moon.' This is probably the same verb with the sense referring to the scattering of light.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191–192.