moana.

Headword: 
moana.
Principal English Translation: 

to flame up (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
moāna
IPAspelling: 
moɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MOĀN(A) to flame up / flamea (T) [(2)Tp.154]. T gives the variant MĀN(A). This appears to be ĀN(A) used reflexively, which in M is glossed as ‘to grow in bodily size.’ See ĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 150.