to howl (an action taken by people dancing the mitote)
Orthographic Variants:
papauia
IPAspelling:
pɑpɑwiɑ
Alonso de Molina:
papauia. nitla. (pret. onitlapapaui.) dar alaridos con bozes los que baylan enel mitote. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.