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mauhcatl.

Headword: 
mauhcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

someone fearful, cowardly (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauhcātl
IPAspelling: 
mɑwkɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MAUHCĀ-TL someone fearful, cowardly / miedoso (Z), temeroso (Z) [(4)Zp. 84, 120, 170, 174]. MAUHCĀ-, the verb MAHU(I) plus the ligature –CĀ-, is an element in a large number of constructions, but MAUHCĀ-TL as a free nominal form with an absolutive suffix appears only in Z. See MAHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 140.