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cihuapahua.

Headword: 
cihuapahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to be very cold, to feel as though freezing to death (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuapaua
IPAspelling: 
siwɑpɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ciuapaua. ni. (pret. oniciuapauh.) tener mucho frio, o elarse, y morirse de frio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Death and Dying