for something to dissolve, to melt, disintegrate, fall to pieces; will often refer to salt, snow, ice, etc.; with the glottal stop, pahti, a different word, which means to get well, regain good health (see Molina and Karttunen)
to get well, recover; for some problem or the like to be fixed
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), 229.
# Persona ablanda la tortilla para un bebe o una abuelito que coma y lo trague. “Alejandra ablanda una tortilla para su abuelita porque no tiene diente con que comer.”