to take someone by surprise, stealth (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nāhualahci
IPAspelling:
nɑːwɑlɑhsi
Frances Karttunen:
NĀHUALAHCI vt to take someone by surprise, stealth / le agarra con sorpresa (T) [(6)Tp.194,233]. See NĀHUAL-LI, AHCI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 157.