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tlalhuia.

Headword: 
tlalhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to summon or invite someone, to advise someone or warn someone to be on time (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalhuia. nite. (pret. onitetlalhui.) munir, o apercebir a alguno para algun negocio, o combidar a otro.
tlalhuia. nitla. (pret. onitlatlalhui.) allegar, o echar tierra a alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLALHUIĀ vt to summon or invite someone, to advise someone or warn someone to be on time / muñir o apercibir a alguno para algún negocio, o convidar a otro (M), apercibir o prevenir a alguno para que haga algo a su tiempo (C) [(1)Cf.128v]. C contrasts this with TLĀLHUIĀ ‘to heap dirt on something.’ See (I)LHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 274.