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mahuizpiya.

Headword: 
mahuizpiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to hold someone in respect (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
mɑwispiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZPIY(A) vt to hold someone in respect / lo respeta (Z) [(2)Zp.109,190]. See MAHUIZ-TLI, PIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 133.