tlahuiltequi.

Headword: 
tlahuiltequi.
Orthographic Variants: 
tlauiltequi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwilteki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauiltequi. non. (pret. onontlauiltec.) atajar, o yr por camino mas breue, o atrauesar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUILTEQU(I) pret: TLAHUILTEC to go the shortest route, to cut corners / atajar o ir por camino más breve o atravesar (M) [(1)Bf.2v]. Since B specifically marks the vowels of the first three syllables short, the otherwise unattested first element of this contrasts with TLĀHUĪL-LI ‘candlelight.’ M has this with the directional prefix ON-. verb. TEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 270.