to deceive oneself; or, to lie to, deceive, cheat someone
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), 222.
Orthographic Variants:
iztlacauia
IPAspelling:
istɬɑkɑwiɑ
Alonso de Molina:
iztlacauia. nino. (pret. oninoztlacaui.) engañarse.
iztlacauia. nite. (pret. oniteiztlacaui.) engañar a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 49v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
niqu. Class 3: ōniquiztlacahuih. iztlaca-/iztlactli, -huia. 222