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tlacolhuia.

Headword: 
tlacolhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to go around something

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 3: ōnictlacōlhuih. applicative of cōloa, which with tla- means to go in a circular manner; here tla- seems to be absorbed in the stem. 236
cōlhuia, nictla. 215
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.