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ixachi.

Headword: 
ixachi.
Principal English Translation: 

a lot or great in quantity (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
iʃɑtʃi
Alonso de Molina: 

ixachi. mucho, o grande en cantidad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 44v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

IXACHI pl: IXACHĪN ~ IXACHĪNTIN much, great in number, very many / mucho o grande en cantidad (M), muy muchos en número (M for plural) [(1)Bf.11V, (3)Cf.5V].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 110.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ixachi = mucho, grande en cantidad; ixachintin, ixachin = muchos, grandes
Joseph Augustin de Aldama y Guevara, Arte de la lengua mexicana (Mexico: BIbliotheca Mexicana, 1754), 25.