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nahualpahuia.

Headword: 
nahualpahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to reassure someone through cunning or deception (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
naualpauia
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwɑlpɑhwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

naualpauia. nite. (pret. onitenaualpaui.) assegurar a otro con alguna cautela o fingimiento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.