Principal English Translation:
quickly, soon, already, really, right now, again, in a short amount of time
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.