Principal English Translation:
something tough (see Karttunen)
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
something tough, like poorly cooked food
pret. agentive from a -ti verb now no longer recoverable.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 236.