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zan ye.

Headword: 
zan ye.
Principal English Translation: 

more, but, however, yet (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
zanye, çan ye
Alonso de Molina: 

zanye. mas, o empero. (coniunction aduersatiua.)
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 14r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

also; on the same day; as soon as
çan ye çen yez = will be together with
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.