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chitonia.

Headword: 
chitonia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make wood splinter or chip off; or, to cause beads to drop when one is making a strand; or, to make the fire sparkle or twinkle (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

chitonia. nitla. (pret. onitlachitoni.) hazer saltar la cuenta que queria ensartar, o las astillas de algun madero, o de cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

chitonia (verb) = to gain, to realize a profit Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 152.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Wood, wooden material