Principal English Translation:
a bit, a little; not much (see also our entry for achi)
Alonso de Molina:
Achitzin. vn puquito, o poca cosa. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571 (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 2r.
achitzincauitl. vn poco de interualo, o espacio de tiempo. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 2r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
ACHIHTZIN a bit / un poquito, o poca cosa (M) See ACHI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 2.
Horacio Carochi / English:
achìtzin = a bit
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 460–61, 496.
Attestations from sources in English:
achitzin cahuitl = a short interval, or a short space of time (Molina)
IDIEZ def. náhuatl:
Pīlquēntzin ce tlamantli. “Niconiz achitzin cafen pampa nechcocoa noihti.”