Principal English Translation:
let it not be that, beware lest, etc.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 224.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
mānēn, particle. less ambiguous and more emphatic than mā with the vetitive, mā, nēn in vain. 224