nauhpohualli.

Headword: 
nauhpohualli.
Principal English Translation: 

eighty (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāuhpōhualli, nauhpovally, nauhpoalli
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwpoːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀUHPŌHUAL-LI eighty / ochenta (M for nappoalli] [(1)Bf.10v]. The UHP sequence often assimilates to PP. See NĀHU(I), -PŌHUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.

Attestations from sources in English: 

nauhpovally chilli = 80 chiles (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 172–173.

y napovaltica = every 80 days (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 154–155.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nauhpoalli = 80, lit. cuatro veintes
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xlv.

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