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macuiltetl.

Headword: 
macuiltetl.
Principal English Translation: 

five (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːkwiːltetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

macuiltetl. cinco.
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: 

A house with five (macuiltetl) rooms was sold by the cabildo of Tula to a Spaniard for 15 pesos. It belonged to the late Pedro García Quezcomacteuctli.
James Lockhart collection, notes from the "Land and Economy" folder. In this example he cites AGN (Mexico) Tierras 3548, exp. 3?, f. 1r., 1v. Information collected for this entry by SW.

The numerical classifier/suffix -tetl originally pointed to round and solid objects (something like stones), but it gradually evolved and could be used for all kinds of things, such as houses (above). (SW)

themes: 
Numbers, Math