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quenocye.

Headword: 
quenocye.
Principal English Translation: 

all the more, how much more? (see Karttunen); a comparator

Orthographic Variants: 
quen oc ye, quēnocyeh
IPAspelling: 
keːnokyeh
Alonso de Molina: 

quenocye. quantomas. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUĒNOCYEH all the more, how much more? / ¿cuanto más? (M) [(1)Cf.88r]. C gives this together with QUĒNOQUEH to show the variation -YEH ~ -EH. The literal sense is approximately 'how-still-that?' See QUĒN, OC, (Y)EH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 209.