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temamauhtia.

Headword: 
temamauhtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to frighten or threaten someone (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

temamauhtia. ni. (pret. onitemamauhti.) amedrentar, o amenazar a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 97r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"1544 13 Tecpatl Yn icuac in micoac nohuian altepetl omochiuh huey cocoliztli temamauhti" = "1544 13 Flint-knife (year). It was when people died in all the cities. A great sickness broke out; it frightened people."
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 49, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

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