nenyan.

Headword: 
nenyan.
Principal English Translation: 

in vain.

IPAspelling: 
neːnyɑːn
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNYĀN in vain, to no end / en vano, inútilmente, sin provecho (S) [(6)Cf.112,113v]. Both C and S provide a variant of this without the final N. See NĒN, -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

nēnyān = in vain
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), 507.