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mauhcamiqui.

Headword: 
mauhcamiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to get scared, to take fright; to faint urinate from fear (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauhcāmiqui
IPAspelling: 
mɑwkɑːmiki
Alonso de Molina: 

mauhcamiqui. ni. (pret. onimauhcamic.) mearse, o amortecerse de temor.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAUHCĀMIQU(I) prêt: -MIC to get scared, to take fright; to faint urinate from fear / mearse o amortecerse de temor (M), se espanta, se asusta tiene miedo (T) [(3)Tp. 140]. See MAHU(I), MIQU(I).

MAUHCĀMICOHUA nonact MAUHCĀMIQU(I)

MAUHCĀMIQUĪTIĀ altern. caus. MAUHCĀMIQU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 140.