Principal English Translation:
to come close, get close; to allow something to reach one
Alonso de Molina:
axitlani. notechnic. notechonicaxitlan. permitir que llegue algo a mi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Horacio Carochi / English:
àxitlani = to come close, get close
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), 301, 496.
Attestations from sources in English:
àci (arrive) + tlani
The c changes to x in this construction, just as it does in the passive, causative, and applicative.
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), 301.