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tlahuantia.

Headword: 
tlahuantia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cause someone to get drunk (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauantia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwɑːntiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauantia. nite. (pret. onitetlauanti.) emborrachar a otro desta manera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 143v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀHUĀNTIĀ altern. caus. TLĀHUĀN(A).TLĀHUĀN(A) to get drunk / beber vino o Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 267. emborracharse templadamente (M), se emborracha, se embriaga (T).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Cuix otitetlahuanti? = As emborrachado otras personas
Antonio Vázquez Gastelu, Arte de lengua mexicana (Puebla de los Angeles, México: Imprenta Nueva de Diego Fernández de León, 1689), 38v.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens