to waylay or spy on someone (see Molina and Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
pachiuia
IPAspelling:
pɑtʃiwiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
pachiuia. ninote. (pret. oninotepachiui.) asechar o espiar a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 78v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
PACHIHUIĀ tv to waylay or spy on someone / asechar o espiar a otro (M) [(1)Cf.127v]. This takes a direct object plus an oblique reflexive prefix. C contrasts this with PAHCHĪHUIĀ 'to benefit from medicine.' Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 182.