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cecempohualli.

Headword: 
cecempohualli.
Principal English Translation: 

every twenty, or for each one twenty

Orthographic Variants: 
cecempoalli
IPAspelling: 
seːsempoːwɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

cecempoalli/cecempoaltetl. de veinte en veinte, o cada vno veinte.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 15r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CĒCEMPŌHUAL-LI by twenties, twenty apiece, in lots of twenty / de veinte en veinte, o cada uno veinte (M) redup. CEMPŌHUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 27.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Also seen as cecempoaltetl, cecempohualtetl.