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tlahuia.

Headword: 
tlahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to light a candle, to light the way for people with tapers or torches (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauia. (pret. otlaui.) alumbrar la candela.
tlauia. ni. (pret. onitlaui.) alumbrar a otros con candela o hacha.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 144v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀHUIĀ to light a candle, to light the way for people with tapers or torches / alumbrar la candela (M), alumbrar a otros con candela o hacha (M) M also has a related verb with the prefix TLA- meaning ‘to redden’ something with ochre, to turn red, to blush.’ TLĀHUIĀ is apparently a reduction of TLĀUHHUIĀ

TLĀHUĪLŌ nonact. TLĀHUIĀ.

TLĀHUILTIĀ caus. TLĀHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 269–270.