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achiton.

Headword: 
achiton.
Principal English Translation: 

a little bit; very little; in some way; to some extent; rather; small; somewhat

Orthographic Variants: 
çan achiton, achinton
IPAspelling: 
ɑtʃihto:n
Alonso de Molina: 

Achiton. vn poco. aduerbio.
Achitonca. vn poco de tiempo. aduerbio.
Achiton cauitl. idem.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571 (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 2r.
çan achiton. vnpoquillo. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571 (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 14r.

Frances Karttunen: 

ACHIHTŌN a bit / un poco (M) See ACHI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 2.

Attestations from sources in English: 

achitonca, achiton cahuitl = a little bit of time, very little time (see Molina)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ca nel quimotlachcuitlaxilli yn achinton tlalmatliazo tepantzintli = cego con cespedes un pedazo de tierra [tlalmantli] quizas pondra alguna pared (Ciudad de México, 1578)
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), 151.

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