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eexcan.

Headword: 
eexcan.
Principal English Translation: 

in each three places, or to each one goes three rations (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

eexcan. en cada tres partes, o acada tres raciones.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

eexcan = en cada tres lugares
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xlviii.

themes: 
Numbers, Math