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nenquen.

Headword: 
nenquen.
Principal English Translation: 

right away, immediately (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēnquēn
IPAspelling: 
neːnkeːn
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNQUĒN right away, immediately / inmediatemente, prisa, apurado, aprisa (Z) This is abundantly attested, but only in Z. See NĒN, QUĒN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.