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mayecuel.

Headword: 
mayecuel.
Principal English Translation: 

"lets go!" (see Molina); also, a personal name, attested male in Tlaxcala

Orthographic Variants: 
macuele
IPAspelling: 
mɑːjekweːl
Alonso de Molina: 

mayecuel. lo mismo es que macuele. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Domingo Mayehcuel = Domingo Mayecuel (nombre de una persona en la región de Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 234.