patlahua.

Headword: 
patlahua.
Orthographic Variants: 
patlaua
IPAspelling: 
pɑtɬɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

patlaua. ensancharse lo angosto y estrecho.
patlaua. nitla. (pret. onitlapatlauh.) ensanchar camino, mesa, lecho, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PATLĀHUA to widen / ensancharse lo angosto y estrecho (M) M has intransitive and transitive patlahua and gives no preterit form for the transitive verb. It is likely that the preterit of this item is PATLĀHUAC, contrasting with the transitive preterit PATLĀUH, but this is not adequately attested.

PATLĀHU(A) vt to widen something / ensanchar camino, mesa, lecho, o cosa semejante (M) See PATLĀHUA.

PATLĀHUILIĀ applic. PATLĀHU(A).

PATLĀHUALO nonact. PATLĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 189.