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matlaccan.

Headword: 
matlaccan.
Principal English Translation: 

in ten parts (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑhtɬɑkkɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

matlaccan. en diez partes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHTLACCĀN in ten places / en diez partes (M) [(2)Cf. 91V]. See MAHTLAC-TLI, -CĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 131.

themes: 
Numbers, Math