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pachihuia.

Headword: 
pachihuia.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

themes: 
War, Conflict