payana.

Headword: 
payana.
Principal English Translation: 

to break up dirt clods; or, to crumble something (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
pɑyɑːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

payana. nitla. (pret. onitlapayan.) quebrantar terrones, o desmenuzar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 79r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PAYĀN(A) vrefl,vt for something to get pulverized; to break up, crumble, grind something / se muele (T), quebrantar terrones o desmenuzar algo (M).

PAYĀNALŌ nonact. PAYĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 190.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents payana in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).