petztia.

Headword: 
petztia.
Principal English Translation: 

to turn out very smooth or shiny something that is polished (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

petztia. (pret. opetztiac.) pararse muy liso, o luzio, lo acecalado o bruñido.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

totontlapetztia = it becomes glowing hot (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 97.