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petzihui.

Headword: 
petzihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to end up very smooth, slippery, shiny (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
petziui
IPAspelling: 
petsiwi
Alonso de Molina: 

petziui. (pret. opetziuh.) pararse muy luzio lo bruñido, o acecalado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PETZIHU(I) to be smooth, slippery, shiny / pararse muy lucio lo bruñido o acicalado (M), se resbala, se alisa (T) [(2)Tp.173,248]. See PETZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 192.