Principal English Translation:
sign of the vetitive (see Carochi)
Horacio Carochi / English:
mā nēn = sign of the vetitive
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), 506.