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ohuica icuiloa.

Headword: 
ohuica icuiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to write in ciphers, to encode, to estimate (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouica icuiloa, ohuica ihcuiloa
Alonso de Molina: 

ouica icuiloa. nitla. (pret. onitlaouicaicuilo.) cifrar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 78r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Writing, Literacy