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tlamauhtia.

Headword: 
tlamauhtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cause fear or reverence (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

"...icuac tlamauhtico tlacaichtequi ipan miercoles mochi ocalac teopan in tlatlaca ihuan in pipiltzitzintin (p. 763)" = "At this time an abductor came causing terror. On Wednesday all of the adults and children entered the church (to take refuge)." (Anales de Puebla y Tlaxcala, no. 1, part 2, 1519–1697)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, pp. 82–83, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mahuiztilia, maucaitta, y tlamauhtia = comunican el temor y la reverencia
Las emociones como dispositivos para la comprehensión del mundo social, coords. Enríquez-Rosas, R., y López-Sánchez, O. (2017), see p. 328.

themes: 
Emotions
See also: 
tlamauhtiloni.