atel.

Headword: 
atel.
Principal English Translation: 

is it not (see Carochi); or, to be lazy, without occupation (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
atel
IPAspelling: 
ɑhteːl
Alonso de Molina: 

atel. ser perezosos o desganados.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 7v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

àtēl = it is not
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 434–35, 498.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality