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ma ye cuel.

Headword: 
ma ye cuel.
Principal English Translation: 

oh come on! (an exhortation)

Orthographic Variants: 
macuele, mayecuele
Alonso de Molina: 

Mayecuele. lo mismo es que macuele. Aduerbio. Macuele. ea ea, alto aello, suso. Aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 51r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

niman ie ic tzatzi: quitoa. Mexicae ma ie cuel = when it was time, he cried out, saying, "O Mexica, up and at them!"
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 208.