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capania.

Headword: 
capania.
Principal English Translation: 

to make noise with one's shoes

IPAspelling: 
kɑpɑːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

capania. nitla. (pret. onitlacapani.) hazer ruido con los zapatos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAPĀNIĀ vt to cause something to make a creaking or slapping sound / hacer ruido con los zapatos (M) [(1)Cf.74r,(1)Zp.170]. See CAPĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 25.