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pati.

Headword: 
pati.
Principal English Translation: 

to get well, recover; for some problem or the like to be fixed

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), 229.

IPAspelling: 
pɑhti
Alonso de Molina: 

pati. ni. (pret. onipatic.) conualecer y sanar el enfermo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ni. Class 1: ōnipahtic. pahtli, -ti. 229

Attestations from sources in English: 

pàti = to get better, to convalesce, for a sick person to recuperate (intransitive) (colonial Mexico)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 197.

pati = it heals (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 97.