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nauhmapa.

Headword: 
nauhmapa.
Principal English Translation: 

in the four directions (see Sahagún)

Attestations from sources in English: 

aço nauhmapa. in motzimani. auh nimã ye ic ompeua in tiacaua ỹuicpa õuetzi in tototecti q'moncotonilia in inxic = Perhaps they faced each other in the four directions. And then the chieftains started forth and fell upon the tototecti; they tickled their navels. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 85.