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cochmamauhtia.

Headword: 
cochmamauhtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to have a nightmare, to be frightened in one’s sleep (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cochmahmauhtiā
IPAspelling: 
kotʃmɑhmɑwtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

COCHMAHMAUHTIĀ vrefl to have a nightmare, to be frightened in one’s sleep / se espanta en el sueño (T) [(3)Tp.146]. See COCH(I), MAHMAUHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 37.