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tonalcahua.

Headword: 
tonalcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to get frightened; to frighten someone (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tōnalcāhua
IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlkɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TŌNALCĀHU(A) vrefl.vt to get frightened; to frighten someone / deja el ánima al espantarse (T), le espanta (T) [(6)Tp.171,213]. The literal sense of this has to do with going cold or having chills, as with fright. See TŌNAL-LI, CĀHU(A).

TŌNALCĀHULIĀ applic. TŌNALCĀHU(A).

TŌNALCĀHUALŌ nonact. TŌNALCĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 245.