for something to rot, become putrid (see Molina and Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
pɑlɑːnɑltiːɑ
Alonso de Molina:
palanaltia. nic. (pret. onicpalanalti.) podrecer algo.
palanaltia. nitla. (pret. onitlapalanalti.) podrecer algo o tener podrido lo suyo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 79r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
PALĀNALTĪA vt to rot something / lo pudre (T) [(4)Tp.172,195,(2)Zp.100,192]. M has palaniltia with the same sense. caus. PALĀN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 185.