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mauhcacahua.

Headword: 
mauhcacahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to keep one’s silence out of fear (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauhcācāhua
IPAspelling: 
mɑwkɑːkɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MAUHCĀCĀHU(A) vt to keep one’s silence out of fear / tu callas por miedo (R for second pers. sg. subject) [(1)Rp. 31]. R fails to mark the vowel of the third syllable long. See MAHU(I), CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 140.