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mauhca.

Headword: 
mauhca.
Principal English Translation: 

fearfully

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 224.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

mauhcā, pret. agentive as adverbial particle. also combined with verbs and nouns in meaning in fear, fearful, with respect. from little used mahui to be afraid. 224