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ixtlahuia.

Headword: 
ixtlahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cross in front of others (see Molina); or, to pay someone what is owed (applicative of ixtlahua, to pay)

Orthographic Variants: 
ixtlauia
IPAspelling: 
iʃtɬɑːwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ixtlauia. nitla. (pret. onitlaixtlaui.) atrauesar delante de otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 48v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nimitztlaxtlāhuia = I pay you (s.); Nimitzixtlāhuilia in motequiuh = I pay you for your job
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 204.

onixtlahuia in Mexicayotl = the Mexican nation comes into its own, receives its due (suggesting a possible alternate translation of a passage from the Cantares Mexicanos, Bierhorst, 346–47, verse 17)
James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 147.