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quinaxca.

Headword: 
quinaxca.
Principal English Translation: 

now, for a little while (ahora poco ha)

Gran Diccionario del Náhuatl, http://www.gdn.unam.mx/diccionario/consultar/palabra/quinaxca

Attestations from sources in English: 

ypiltzin. ymil. quinaxca. omopohuato. = The son's field was now counte.... This term appears frequently across this manuscript. In at least one place the final a has an overbar; see 144–145. (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 140–141.