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ihuian.

Headword: 
ihuian.
Principal English Translation: 

peacefully, tranquilly, slowly, little by little; carefully, with discretion, gently, sweetly; humbly (an adverb) (see Lockhart and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ihuiyan, iuian
Alonso de Molina: 

iuian. mansamente, o contiento. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 44r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

particle. peacefully, uncontested, gradually, bit by bit. the same as matcā. from iuh/ihui, -yān?
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), 220.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

DON HERNANDO PIMENTEL IHUIAN itlatlapaltilma itepotzoicpal = DON HERNANDO PIMENTEL IHUÍAN, su manta listada de colores, su asiento con espaldar (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 214—215.