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tlapiya.

Headword: 
tlapiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to take care of things, to stand watch (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahpiya
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhpiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHPIY(A) pret: TLAHPIX to take care of things, to stand watch / cuida (cosas) (Z). This is attested across all sources and implies a verb *(I)HPIY(A) to which the nonspecific object prefix TLA –has become fused to form an intransitive verb. See PIY(A).

TLAHPIYALIĀ applic. TLAHPIY(A).

*(I)HPIY(A) See TLAHPIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 262.