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chalia.

Headword: 
chalia.
Principal English Translation: 

introduce, inaugurate

IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

chalia. nitla. (pret. onitlachali.) estrenar alguna cosa nueua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀLIĀ vt to inaugurate something, to handle something for the first time / estrenar alguna cosa nueva (M) [(2)Zp.58,187].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.