to take something away from someone; applicative of poloa
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 230.
IPAspelling:
polwiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
polhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlapolhui.) perder cosa agena, o borrarle algo a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
POLHUIĀ vt to lose or destroy something for someone / perder cosa ajena o borrarle algo de otro (M) applic. POLOĀ. POLHUILIĀ applic. POLHUIĀ. POLHUĪLŌ nonact. POLHUIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 202.