mauhcacahua. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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.