tzayana.

Headword: 
tzayana.
Principal English Translation: 

to rip, tear

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), 240.

IPAspelling: 
tsɑyɑːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzayana. nitla. (pret. onitlatzayan.) rasgar, romper, o hender algo, o desgajar rama de arbol.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZAYĀN(A) vt tear something / rasgar, romper, o hender algo, o desgajar rama de árbol (M) See TZAYĀN(I). TZAYĀNILIĀ applic. TZAYĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. Class 2: ōnictzayān.
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), 240.