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petzcaxitl.

Headword: 
petzcaxitl.
Principal English Translation: 

polished bowls, smooth bowls (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
petskɑʃitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

petzcaxitl. escudilla vidriada, o muy bruñida y lisa, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

chipaoac atl, in quauitl, in tlatlatilquauitl, in tecolli, in apaztli, in petzcaxitl, in apilloli, in tzotzocolli in tlatzoionilcaxitl, in ic ixquich in çoquitlatquitl = fresh water, wood, firewood, charcoal, earthen tubs, polished bowls, water jars, large clay pitchers, vessels for frying, all kinds of earthenware. (Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 122.

themes: 
Earthenware, Pottery, Clay