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-temani.

Headword: 
-temani.
Principal English Translation: 

an element that couples with a number prefix to describe numbers of rooms or parts of a housing complex

Attestations from sources in English: 

See ontemani (two) and yetemani (three), as examples.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn calli ontemani yuan ytlallo = las dichas casas que son dos aposentos con su tierra (Ciudad de México, 1582)
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), 178.

themes: 
Numbers, Math