to begin to have some feeling of apprehension for no good reason (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nēmpēhui
IPAspelling:
neːmpeːwi
Frances Karttunen:
NĒMPĒHU(I) to begin to have some feeling of apprehension for no good reason / empieza (a tener miedo, etc.) sin causa (T) [(3)Tp.167J. See NĒN, PĒHU(A).
NĒMPĒHUĪHUA nonact. NĒMPĒHU(I).
NĒMPĒHUĪTIĀ caus. NĒMPĒHU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 166.