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nacazmahui.

Headword: 
nacazmahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to live in fear with one's ears cocked (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑsmɑwi
Frances Karttunen: 

NACAZMAHU(I) to live in fear with one's ears cocked / tienen temores (y) sobresaltos (C for third person plural subject) [(1)Cf.120r]. See NACAZ-TLI, MAHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 156.