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quentel.

Headword: 
quentel.
Principal English Translation: 

tolerably, so-so

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), 231.

IPAspelling: 
keːnteːl
Alonso de Molina: 

quentel. algun tanto, o en alguna manera. 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: 

QUĒNTĒL somewhat, in some way / algún tanto, o en alguna manera (M) [(6)Cf.125r,131v,(2)Bf.12v,13r]. See QUĒN, TĒL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 209.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

particle. quēn, tēl. 231