to slip (see Molina and Karttunen); see also our entry for alāhua, the contemporary Eastern Huastecan term
IPAspelling:
ɑlɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina:
alaua. nin. (pret. oninalauh.) resbalar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
alaua. nite. (pret. onitealauh.) vntar a otro con vnguento, o con cosa semejante Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ALĀHU(A) vrefl,vt to slip: to slide something / resbalar (M) ALĀHUILIĀ applic. ALĀHU(A) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.