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.