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mocempohua.

Headword: 
mocempohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to add up things that are countable (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
mocempoa
Alonso de Molina: 

mocempoa. summar lo que se cuenta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 57v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh ye ic mocempoa = Y de esta manera suma (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 204—205.

themes: 
Numbers, Math