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tlacxitl.

Headword: 
tlacxitl.
Principal English Translation: 

foot (a unit of measure in land documents dating from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries)

Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 153.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn matlactlacxitl nican mopia = the ten-foot-measure that is kept here (Atenantitlan, 1554)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 9, 88–89.

huitze hualacxipetlatiaque nohuian = coming barefoot everywhere (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 118–119.

translated as paso (pace, footstep) in Spanish
Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519–1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 131.

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