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macuilpohualipilli.

Headword: 
macuilpohualipilli.
Principal English Translation: 

two thousand cloths, mats, tortillas, pieces of paper, etc.

Orthographic Variants: 
macuilpoalipilli
Alonso de Molina: 

macuilpoalipilli. dos mil mantas, esteras, tortillas, pliegos de papel. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The construction is 5 x 20 x 20 (with the final 20 being the ipilli), which equals 2,000.

themes: 
Numbers, Math