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totonilia.

Headword: 
totonilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to heat something, to warm someone up (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
totoːniliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

totonilia. nite. (pret. onitetotonili.) callentar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TOTŌNILIĀ applic. TOTŌNIĀ.

TOTŌNIĀ vrefl, vt to warm oneself; to heat something / calentarse a la lumbre o al sol (M), asolear o calendar algo al sol o a la lumbre (M). The reflexive use of this is synonymous with intransitive TOTŌNIY(A). See TŌNA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 248.