to grant or to concede something to someone (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
macauilia
IPAspelling:
mɑːkɑːwiliɑː
Alonso de Molina:
macauilia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlamacauili) otorgar, o conceder algo a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
MĀCĀHUILIĀ vt to concede something to someone / otorgar o conceder algo a otro (M) [(1)Tp. 191]. applic. MĀCĀHU(A) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 126–127.