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cuauhmapan.

Headword: 
cuauhmapan.
Principal English Translation: 

up in a tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhmāpan
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwmɑːpɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHMĀPAN up in a tree / arriba en el árbol [(1)Zp.149]. This is based on a compound of CUAHUI-TL ‘tree’ and MĀ(I)-TL, ‘hand’ referring to the out spread branches of the crown of the tree MĀ(I)-TL, by itself is used to mean ‘branch’ as well as ‘hand.’ See CUAHU(I)-TL, MĀ(I)-TL, -PAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.