Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

imacaxilia.

Headword: 
imacaxilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to be afraid of someone, hold someone in awe (applicative of īmacaci)

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), 220.

IPAspelling: 
iːmɑkɑʃiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

imacaxilia. ninote. (pret. oninoteimacaxili.) tener respecto o temor reuerencial.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 37v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪMACAXILIĀ applic. ĪMACAC(I) ĪMACAC(I) vt; pret: ĪMACAZ to hold someone in awe, to fear someone, to be respectful toward someone / temer a alguno (M), tener respecto a temor reverencial (M)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 105.