chalia. nitla. (pret. onitlachali.) estrenar alguna cosa nueua. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
CHĀLIĀ vt to inaugurate something, to handle something for the first time / estrenar alguna cosa nueva (M) [(2)Zp.58,187]. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.