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icelia.

Headword: 
icelia.
Principal English Translation: 

to become fond of something, or apply oneself to something (see Molina)

or, to incite another; to devote one's self to
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 155.

IPAspelling: 
ihseliɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

icelia. nic. (pret. oniquiceli.) aficionarse, o aplicarse a algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 32r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

icelia (verb) = to incite another, to devote one's self to
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 155.