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chicuacentetl.

Headword: 
chicuacentetl.
Principal English Translation: 

the number six (6)

Orthographic Variants: 
chichuacentetl, chicuacentetl, chiquacentetl
Alonso de Molina: 

chiquacentetl. seys.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The orthorgraphic variants chichuacenteme and chicuacenteme are found in a colonial (seventeenth-century?) Guatemalan Nahuatl music manuscript.
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 92.

themes: 
Numbers, Math