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colhuia.

Headword: 
colhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take someone in circles to a place, or to go around somewhere in order to not pass by someone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
culhuia
IPAspelling: 
koːlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

culhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlaculhui.) lleuar a otro por rodeos a alguna parte, o rodear por no passar por donde esta alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CŌLHUIĀ vt to skirt something, someone; to avoid something, someone bypassing to one side / llevar a otro por rodeos a alguna parte, o rodear por no pasar por donde está alguno (M) [(4)Tp.207,229,(3)Zp.45,94,194]. See CŌL, CŌLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 40.