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pesohuia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pesohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to weigh something with weights (see Molina), a Nahuatlized Spanish loan (peso, weight)

Orthographic Variants: 
pesouia, pesovia
Alonso de Molina: 

pesouia. nitla. (pret. onitlapesoui.) pesar algo con peso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yc mopesoviz y monamacaz yvan y mocovaz = pesar lo que se vende y se compra (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 306–307.