huitzhuia.

uitzuia. nitla. (pret. onitlauitzui.) punzar con puya, o espina gorda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

HUITZHUIĀ vt to prick something with a thorn / punzar con puya o espina (M) [(2)Zp.56,188]. See HUITZ-TLI, HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 90.