cempohualxiquipilli

Classical Nahuatl

Classical Nahuatl numbers (edit)
 ←  159,999 160,000
    Cardinal: cempōhualxiquipilli
    Ordinal: ic cempōhualxiquipilli
    Adverbial: cempōhualxiquipilpa

Alternative forms

  • cempoalxiquipilli (obsolete spellings)

Etymology

From ce (“one”) (combining form cem-) + pōhualli (“a count”) + xiquipilli (“a bag”). A new root word would be expected to form numbers as occurs in Yucatec Mayan, whose vigesimal system has 3 words for successive powers of 20 starting from 8,000, junk'alab (160,000), junkʼiinchil (3,200,000) and junalaw (64,000,000).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sem.poː.waɬ.ʃi.ki.ˈpi.lːi/

Numeral

cempōhualxiquipilli

  1. one hundred and sixty thousand
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