to be bashful in speech or eating habits (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
camapīnāhua
IPAspelling:
kɑmɑpiːnɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen:
CAMAPĪNĀHUA to be bashful in speech or eating habits / se avergüenza en comer, en hablar, etc. (T) [(5)Tp.113]. T forms the preterit as CAMAPĪNĀUH, but elsewhere PĪNĀHUA forms its preterit by adding –C. See CAM(A)-TL, PĪNĀHUA. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 23.