to lose heart (oneself), or to cause someone to lose heart or become faint (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
zotlaua
IPAspelling:
sotɬɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina:
zotlaua. nite. (pret. onitezotlauh.) desmayar a otro assi.
zotlaua. ni. (pret. onizotlauac.) desmayarse o amortecerse. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ZOTLĀHUA to faint / desmayarse o amortecerse (M) [(1)Cf.88r]. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 349.