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tlaalahui.

Headword: 
tlaalahui.
Principal English Translation: 

for things to be slippery (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaalāhui
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑɑlɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAALĀHU(I) for things to be slippery / resbaloso (T) [(1)Tp.232]. See ALĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 250.