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tlahuelia.

Headword: 
tlahuelia.
Principal English Translation: 

to be angry with someone; to loath, hate someone

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauelia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑweːliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauelia. nite. (pret. onitetlaueli.) tener enojo con otro y aborrecimiento.
71m2-144r. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUĒLIĀ vt to be enraged at someone / tener enojo con otro y aborrecimiento (M). There is a typographical error in M which substitutes h for li, but the preterit citation is spelled correctly, and it is correctly alphabetized. See TLAHUĒL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.

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