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patilia.

Headword: 
patilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to change; to misdirect someone; to exchange or barter with someone (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pɑtiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

patilia. nite. (pret. onitepatili.) errar a otro enel camino.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PATILIĀ viefl,vt to change; to misdirect someone, to change, exchange, or barter something with someone / se cambia (T), errar a otro en el camino (M), vender, trocar ... una cosa (S) [(2)Bf.5v,(3)Cf.3V,64V, 114r,(6)Tp.155,160]. C contrasts this with PĀTILIĀ, the applicative form of PĀT(I) 'to dissolve.' S confuses this with PAHTILIĀ 'to cure someone' and PĀTILIĀ 'to dissolve something for someone.' applic. PATLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 188.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ynin za tlacopintli ytech omoquisti yn original zan huel neneuhque atle quipatillia = este documento, solo es una copia que se sacó fielmente del original nada le fue cambiado (Tlaxcala, 1585)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 286.