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mauhcatoca.

Headword: 
mauhcatoca.
Principal English Translation: 

to put someone to flight by scaring him (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauhcātoca
IPAspelling: 
mɑwkɑːtokɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MAUHCĀTOCA vt to put someone to flight by scaring him / lo corretea, lo ahuyenta (T) [(3)Tp. 189]. See MAHU(I), TOCA.

MAUHCĀTOQUILIĀ applic. MAUHCĀTOCA

MAUHCĀTOCALŌ nonact. MAUHCĀTOCA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 140.