to salt something (season it) or put salt on a food delicacy, or a stew (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
iztauia
IPAspelling:
istɑwiɑː
Alonso de Molina:
iztauia. nitla. (pret. onitlaztaui.) salar algo, o echar sal al manjar o guisado. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 49v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
(I)ZTAHUIĀ vt to salt something / salar algo, o echar sal al manjar o guisado (M) [(2)Cf. 60V, (3)Tp. 202, (I)Rp. 48]. See IZTA-TL, -HUIĀ.
(I)ZTAHUILIĀ applic. (I)ZTAHUIĀ
(I)ZTAHUĪLŌ nonact. (I)ZTAHUIĀ Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 124.