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yeipohualli.

Headword: 
yeipohualli.
Principal English Translation: 

sixty, literally 3 x 20 (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
yeipoalli, yepoalli, yeypoalli, yeipohualli, yeypohualli, eipoalli, epoalli, yepoalli, hepoual-
Alonso de Molina: 

yepoalli. sesenta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 35v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

All the orthographic variants have yet to be attested. We are anticipating here some of the possibilities.

ye iuh nepa otzonxivitl ipa matlacpoalli xivitl ypa yepoalli onnahui xivitl motlaca- tilitzino y tt°. Dios. = It has been 1,064 years since the birth of our lord God. early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 118–119.

epoalli (adju. num.) = sixty
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 153.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

eipoalli o epoalli = 60, lit. tres veintes
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xlv.

themes: 
Numbers, Math