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cennequetzalpan.

Headword: 
cennequetzalpan.
Principal English Translation: 

from the word for standing erect; a unit of measure said to contain two and a half varas, seven and a half Spanish feet; it was probably based on a standing person raising his/her hand over his/her head

James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 145.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

see nequetzalpan.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.

Attestations from sources in English: 

A similar word is huitzan.

themes: 
Measurements, Quantities