Principal English Translation:
is it not; or, they say; or, to be lazy (see Molina)
Horacio Carochi / English:
ànel = it is not
Horacio Carochi, S.J., Grammar of the Mexican language with an explanation of its adverbs (1645), translated and edited with commentary by James Lockhart, UCLA Latin American Studies Volume 89 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2001), 446–47, 497.