to level something out with the eyes or with an astrolabe (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
ixuia
IPAspelling:
iːʃwiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
ixuia. nitla. (pret. onitlaixui.) nivelar con el ojo, o con astrolabio. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 48v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ĪXHUIĀ vt to level something, to make something even, to cross something, to put something crossways / nivelar con el ojo o con astrolabio (M), lo cruza,lo atraviesa (T) [(3)Tp.215]. See ĪX-TLI, -HUIĀ
ĪXHUILIĀ applic. ĪXHUIĀ
ĪXHUĪLŌ nonact. ĪXHUIĀ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 114.