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ayohuia.

Headword: 
ayohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to warm something with one's breath, or to let out one's breath (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ayouia
IPAspelling: 
ɑːyoːwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ayouia. nitla. (pret. onitlaayoui.) callentar algo con el huelgo, o echar el huelgo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 3v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀYŌHUIĀ vt to warm something with the breath / calentar algo con el huelgo, o echar el huelgo (M), le sopla como cuando uno calienta su manos ... (T) This appears to be related to IHĪYŌ-TL ‘breath’ in some idiosyncratic way. See -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 16.