Principal English Translation:
even, at least (see Carochi)
Orthographic Variants:
manel zan, manel çan, ma nel çan
Horacio Carochi / English:
mā nel çan = even, at least
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), 506.