to be in a bad way, to be gravely ill (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
neltɬɑnɑwi
Frances Karttunen:
NELTLANAHU(I) to be in a bad way, to be gravely ill / se pone grave (Z) [(2)Zp.64,177]. See NEL-LI, TLANAHU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 165.