malhuia.

Headword: 
malhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take good care of something, handle it carefully

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), 224.

IPAspelling: 
mɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

malhuia. nite. (pret. onitemalhui.) guardar la honra a otro, o tratarlo bien.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

malhuia. nino. (pret. oninomalhui.) regalarse, tratarse bien, o tener cuenta con su honra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

malhuia. nitla. (pret. onitlamalhui.) tratar bien y delicadamente alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MALHUIĀ vrefl,vt to be careful with one’s appearance or reputation; to handle something delicately, to take care of something / regalarse, tratarse bien, o tener cuenta con su honra (M), tratar bien y delicadamente alguna cosa (M), lo guarda, lo ahorra, lo asegura (T) [(9) Tp. 152, 153,189]. MALHUILIĀ applic. MALHUIĀ MALHUĪLŌ nonact. MALHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 134.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 3: ōnicmalhuih. 224

Attestations from sources in English: 

malhuia (verb) = to regale, to treat well, to take care of
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 157.