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tlaolpohua.

Headword: 
tlaolpohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to count using the dried kernels of maize (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaolpoa
Attestations from sources in English: 

xictlaolpoa, in izquixiuhtlatlacolli = count with dried kernels of maize the sins of all the years
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 73.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xictlaolpoa, in izquixiuhtlatlacolli = y quenta quantos pecados as hecho
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 72–73.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Numbers, Math