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patohuia.

Headword: 
patohuia.
Orthographic Variants: 
patouia
IPAspelling: 
pɑtowiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

patouia. nite. (pret. onitepatoui.) jugar con otro alos dados, o ajuego de fortuna.
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: 

PATOHUIĀ to gamble with someone / jugar con otro a los dados o a juego de fortuna (M) [(1)Cf.65v]. applic. PATOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 189.