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cuel.

Headword: 
cuel.
Principal English Translation: 

quickly, soon, already, really, right now, again, in a short amount of time

Orthographic Variants: 
cuel achic, cuele
IPAspelling: 
kweːl
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĒL already / ya (C)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 69.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

cuēl = already, quickly, etc.
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), 392–97, 500.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

particle. already, quickly. in Chimalpahin ye nō nicuēl, again (origin of the ni- not well understood).
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency