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.