tlacohuia.

Headword: 
tlacohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to purchase something for oneself; or, to injure with a stick; or, for something to shrink to half its size; or, to go down the middle of the road (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacouia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkowiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacouia. nino. (pret. oninotlacoui.) comprar algo para si.
tlacouia. nite. (pret. onitetlacoui.) herir con vara o vardasca a otro.
tlacouia. nitla. (pret. onitlatlacoui.) henchir alguna cosa hasta la mitad, o yr en la mitad del camino o de cosa assi.
tlacouia. nite. comprar algo para otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlacouia (verb) = to split, to splinter
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 164.