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achic.

Headword: 
achic.
Principal English Translation: 

soon, shortly; a little bit more; also, a particle used in making comparisons (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
achīc
IPAspelling: 
ɑtʃi:k
Frances Karttunen: 

This comparative ACHĪC may be related in some way to the contradictory 'more' sense of ACHI.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Azoc uel achic, azoc cemiluitl. = Perhaps a few minutes, perhaps even a day.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 164–165.

Azoc uel achic, azoc cemiluitl in ipaltzinco in totecuyo. Inin tlatolli, itechpa mitoaya in aquin tlatocati,, tepachoa: ic tlatlatlauhitloya, ic chicaualoya, ellaquaualo = Perhaps a few minutes, perhaps even a day, with the help of our Lord. These words were said to the ruler, to the person who governed, whereby he was exhorted, fortified, and given courage.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 164–165.

achic = in just a little while
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.