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cenquimilli.

Headword: 
cenquimilli.
Principal English Translation: 

twenty; a load of cloths

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquimili
IPAspelling: 
senkimilli
Alonso de Molina: 

cenquimilli. vna carga de mantas, o veinte mantas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 17v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yni quicouh quachtli cenquimili = y lo que dio por las dichas tierras fueron viente mantas [quachtli] (Tlatelolco, 1558)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 77.

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