Principal English Translation:
something medium; somewhat; or, in some way
Orthographic Variants:
zanipan, çanipan, çan ipan cualli, çan ipan
Horacio Carochi / English:
çan īpan, çan īpan qualli = medium
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), 499.