just a little while ago; before you would have come; an adverb (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quinixquichcauitly, quin ixquich cahuitli
Alonso de Molina:
quinixquichcauitly. agora pocoa. s. antes quevinieses. aduerbio. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.