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mocahua.

Headword: 
mocahua.
Orthographic Variants: 
mocaua
IPAspelling: 
mokɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

mocaua. (pret. omocauh) cessar de llouer, o de llorar, o de hazer algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOCĀHU(A) to cease, to remain behind / cesar de llover, o de llorar, o de hacer algo (M) This reflexive use of CĀHU(A) has become lexicalized and is commonly used only in the third person singular. See CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 150.