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tepohua.

Headword: 
tepohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to take a census, count people

Orthographic Variants: 
tenpohua
Attestations from sources in English: 

tepouh jues don Antonio de Miranda solis = judge don Antonio de Miranda Solís took a census
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 94–95.

Ottepouh = he took a census
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 94–95.

1670 Tochtli Xihuitl icuac huala tlacatl otepohuaco ica tlacalaquili (pp. 730–732) = 1670 Rabbit year. At this time a person came to count people for the tribute. (Anales de Tlaxcala, no. 2, 1519–1692)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, p. 42. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

"yn huala Jues tetlacapuhuaco" = "a judge arrived to count people" (in 1670) (Historia cronológica de la N.C. de Tlaxcala, 1310–1689)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, p. 86. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tepoua Baltasar Moñoz 1 tomines = se cuentan Baltasar Moñoz, 1 tomín (Ocotelulco, 1596)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 264-265.

yc 27 de deciembre Sanc Laçaro tepoua = Cuenta de gente del 27 de diciembre (Ocotelulco, 1596)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 264-265.