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Orthographic Variants: 
çannocompiqui

to test something or try something out

Orthographic Variants: 
çan oc ye

in the meantime

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 80–81.

Orthographic Variants: 
çan occenca centlamantli, zan occenca cetlamantli, zan oc cenca cetlamantli, zan oc cenca centlamantli

in a much different way; or, very differently

Orthographic Variants: 
çan occenca, zan oc cenca, çan oc cenca

formerly a great deal more

Orthographic Variants: 
çan oncan

right there, or in the same place

Orthographic Variants: 
zanquemmach, çanquemmach, çan quemmach

slowly, carefully (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
zanquemman, çan quemman, çanquemman

very few times, rarely; or, from time to time (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
zanquexquich, çan quexquich, çanquexquich

something moderate, or very little of something

few

Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 66.

Orthographic Variants: 
zanquezquintin, çan quezquintin, çanquezquintin

just a few people

Orthographic Variants: 
zanquezquiteme, çan quezquiteme

very few beasts (e.g. horses)

Orthographic Variants: 
zanquitlatia, çan quitlatia

a hypocrite, or a person who pretends

Orthographic Variants: 
zantequitl oacico, çan tequitl oacico

he had only just arrived and then he left

Orthographic Variants: 
zantequitl otlaquac o niman oya, zan tequitl otlaquac o niman oya

he just ate and ran (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
çan tequitl

nothing but

Orthographic Variants: 
zantimuchteua, zan timochteua, zan timuchtehua, çantimuchteua, çan timuchteua, çan timochteua, çan timochtehua

we are all of the same parentage; we are all one

Orthographic Variants: 
zantlamach, çantlamach, çan tlamach

slowly, carefully

Orthographic Variants: 
zantlapictli, çantlapictli, çan tlapictli, zantlapic, çantlapic

without purpose, without reason, falsely, or in vain (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
çantlein ipan niccuepa

to throw things at the most narrow (or thinnest) part

Orthographic Variants: 
çan uel motquitinemi

something that's manual, moderate, or portable (see Molina)