peekʼ

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Yucatec Maya[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from a Zapotec language (cf. Isthmus Zapotec bi'cu'), from a Mixe-Zoquean language (cf. Isthmus Mixe uk).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

peekʼ

  1. dog

References[edit]

  • Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 177: “Perro. Pek”
  • Kaufman, Terrence, Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎[1], page 572: “[from Sapoteko *pe7kku (in turn from Mije-Sokean *7uku)]”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 71
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