combining form for numbers that have a sub-base of 5 Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 59.
to one side, sideways, perversely, in a crooked fashion (see Molina); a fraction or half the fingers, i.e. five fingers, hence the number five in number combinations, where one might expect to see macuilli: e.g. chicuey, five plus three, eight (see Siméon)