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-lhuia.

Headword: 
-lhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

a word ending; a transitive verb that ends in -oa, when having the applicative ending (-huia, -lhuia, or -alhuia), becomes an honorific

Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 215.

Attestations from sources in English: 

polhuia = to lose, to destroy something (from polihuia, poloa)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 204.