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A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics

by Daniel G. Brinton

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I Index-Vocabulary of Maya Words

(T. signifies the Tzental dialect.)

ac, a tortoise, or turtle, 35, 74

acan, mead, 42

ac ek, a constellation, 35

aghan, T., young ear of maize, 62

ahau, ruler, lord, 41; a day name, 115

ahau can, rattlesnake, 68, 75

ahau can mai, chief priest, 68

ahau katun, 22

ahau tzab can, the rattlesnake, 75

ah-caluac, the staff bearer, the mayordomo, 52

ah-ch’om, a vulture, 73

ah-chun can, high priest, 68

ah-coy-can, v. p. 110, note

ah-cunal than, word-conjurer, 68

ah-kin, priest, 68

ah-kin-mai, chief priest, 68

ah koh-keuel, a masked priest, 69

ahlo, the macaw, 73

ah-mac ik, wind conjurer, 68

ah-poou, the milky way, 35

ah-pul, a conjurer, 68

ah-uai-chac, rain conjurer, 68

ah-uai xibalba, conjurer of departed souls, 68

ah-zahcab, Venus, 34

akbal, night, darkness, 56; a day name, 116

alau (64,000,000), 19

anhel, to stand erect, 46

bacab, 40

bac-baquetic, a numeral, 19

balam, the jaguar, 72

bak, four hundred, 19

bat, an axe; hail, 104

batab, a chief, 104

batul, to fight, 104

be, footprints, 88

be che, a bridge, 113

ben, or been, a day name, 91, 113

ben-ik, a graphic sign, 90, 123

bolon, nine, 25

bolon paxche, a large drum, 92

budz ek, a comet, 35

bul, a bean; all, the whole, 89

bulcabal, a destruction, 46

caan, the sky, 52

cab, down, downward, etc., 60, 99, 114

caban, a day name, 114

cac, to pull out, 86

calab (160,000), 19

calacal, perforated, 52

caluac, the “staff of office,” 52, 128, 130

camach, a jaw bone, 85

canan, a sentinel, guardian, 34

canan chulchan, Venus, 34

canzicnal, serpent being, 41

cauac, a day name, 115

cayob, T., a drum, 93

ceh, a deer; a month name, 119

chaam, the (molar) teeth, 43

chac, red, strong; water, etc., 34, 40, 109

chac ek, Venus, 34

chacal ik, strong wind, 40

cham, a jaw bone, 85

chamal dzutan, shooting stars, 35

che, tree, wood, 45

chebel, to paint; a paint brush, 42

chel, the rainbow, 40

ch’en, a month name; a well, 118

chi, to bite, 89; a mouth, 112

chibil kin, a solar eclipse, 36

chibil u, a lunar eclipse, 36

chicchan, a day name, 111

chich, strong, powerful, swift, hard, 96

chich kuch, to twist thread, 96

chimal, shield, 34

chimal ek, the north star, 34

chimal ik, the north wind, 34

chimil, a medicine bag, 128

chinax, T., a knife, 89

chu, a calabash, 112

chuen, a day name, 23, 112

chulchan, the sky or heavens, 34

chun, the first, the beginning, 23, 113

ci, to trickle, 114

cib, a day name, 114

cicil, a knife, 84

cimi, a day name, 111

coz, an owl, 73

cuceb, a squirrel, 109

cucul, covered; revolving, 56, 109

culinte, T., a drum of wood, 93

cum, a vase, 41, 48

cum ku, a month name, 121

cun, to conjure, 44

cuzaan, or cuzam, a swallow, 42

dzacab, a generation, 25

dzacah, to heal by magic rites, 93

dzacatan, a medicine drum, 93

dzicnial, 39

dzip, to skin animals, 42

dziz, coolness, cold, 42

eb, a day name, 113

eb-che, a ladder, 77

ebtun, a stone stairway, 113

ebzah, to sharpen, 113

ek, star; black, 34; dyewood, fat, 109

ek chuh, scorpion, 67

ezanab, a day name, 114

ghan, T., maize, 62

haycabal, a destruction, 46

hobnil, hollow; the belly, 40

hozan, disembowelled, 41

hub, a snail, 75

hun, one, 25

hunab, only, sole, 37

hunbalan u, the moon in conjunction, 36

ibach, an armadillo, 72

ical, or ic, T., black, 67

ich, an eye; a face; twins, 84

ik, wind, breath, life, soul, etc., 50, 115

ik, a day name, 91, 115

ikomne, a comet, 35

imix, a day name, 115

itz, fluid, 52

ix, feminine prefix, 40

ix-bouat, a prophetess, 68

ix chel, the rainbow, 40

ix-cunal than, a conjuress, 68

ix kan leom, a spider-web, 40

ix kin, priestess, 68

ix nuc, old woman, 43

kaax, a knot; a harvest-field, 41

kab, a hand, arm, finger, juice, sap, tears, 83

kaba, a name, 83

kabil, his hand, 38

kak, fire, 42, 120

kak mo, a bird, 39

kal, twenty, 19

kan, money, food, etc., 109

kan kin, a month name, 120

katun, 11, 22, 28

kax or kaax, a knot, 91

kax pol, the tress of the hair, 91

kaxala, to rain; the rain, 91

kayab, a month name, 120

kin katun, 28

kin, }

kinal, } see p. 87

kinam, }

kinchil (3,200,000), 19

kin ich (deriv.), 39

koh, a mask, 69

ku, a god; divine, 37

kuch, a vulture, 46, 73

kul, divine, 95

kukum, a feather, 95

kup, to sacrifice, to cut, 69

lakin chan (deriv.), 38

lamat, a day name, 111

licil dzicil, a knife, 89

lilābal, a sprinkler, 104

lom, a lance, 43

lum, the earth, 48

maax, a monkey, 72

mac, to extinguish; a cover; a turtle; a month name, 119

mach, to grasp, 83

mai or maay, dust, smoke, fume, 25, 68

mam, a numeral, 19; grandfather, 128

manik, a day name, 39, 111

matzab, antennæ, rays, 98

mechun, a numeral, 19

mehen ek, a constellation, 35

men, a day name, 114

miatz, a scholar, 25

moan, see muan

mol, a month name, 118

molay ik, a hurricane, 112

moo, the macaw, 73

moxic, T., a day name, 39

muan, a falcon, cloudy, 74; also, a month name, 120

muc, to cover, to bury, 61

much, a frog, 75

mucul canan, Venus, 34

mucul mam, a numeral, 19

mucul u, the waning moon, 61

muluc, a day name, 111

muyal, clouds, 48, 52, 74

muyan, see muan

nak caan, the sky, 99

na, a house, 37

nen, a mirror, 105

noh, great, strong; right hand, 34

noh ek, great star, 34

nohnial, 39

nuc, old, 43

nech, provisions, 42

oc, to enter; a day name, 112

ol, the soul or spirit, 48

oxlahun, thirteen, 25

paakal, to frighten, 44

pacat, face, 44

pax, a musical instrument, 92; a month name, 120

paxan, completed, finished, 92, 125, 129

pax che, a wooden drum, 92

pec, to rattle, to thunder, 63, 71

pec chac, thunder, 63

pechhec hol, flat-headed, 62

pek, a dog, 71

pic, eight thousand, 19

picit, a fan, 105

pixan, the soul, 25

pocam, a cleansing, 55

pop, a mat; a month name, 116

ppeta, to perform religious rites; to cry with pain, 69

ppua, dew, 42

pputum, small, 43

ppuz, bent over, 43

puch, to spoil, to undo, to destroy, 44

puhaa, to blow forth water from the mouth, 98

puy, a shell, 19

ta, a knife; excrement, 89

tah, a dramatic representation, 89

tab, cord, twenty 19, 42

tamacaz, the milky way, 35

tan kukul, before the gods, 44

tankul, a drum, 93

tem, an altar of stone, 48

tixl (Cak.), the tapir, 55

tub, to spit, 42

tun, a stone, a jewel, 42

tunkul, see tankul

tup, to stop up, to extinguish; also, ear-rings, 85, 120

tupul u uich kin, a solar eclipse, 36

tzab, rattles of the rattlesnake; the Pleiades, 35, 63

tza ec, a comet, 35

tzapa, short, 43

tzec, a scorpion; a month name, 117

tzekel, a death’s head, 117

tzimin, the tapir, 55

tzotzceh (3,200,000), 19

tzuc, a five-day period, 28

U, the moon.; a necklace; his; 36, 86, 87

ua or ual, a dot, 97; a fan, 105

uac, six, 43

ual, month, 118

u nupptanba, the moon in opposition, 36

uil, food; advantageous, 86

uinal, month; twenty, 87

uinic, a man, 43, 87

uo, a frog, 75; a month name, 116

uooh, a book; a letter, 116

ut, a snail, 75

xamach, a platter, 58

xaman, north, 34

xaman ek, the north star, 34

xanab xux, a bee, 60

xel, a comb, etc., 86

xicin, an ear; a shell, 85

xik, wing of a bird, 84

xikal, a queen, 84

xiix, bran, husks of grain, 97

xoc, to sing, to chant, 42

xoc, the breech clout, 91

xul, a planting stick, 105; to end; a month name, 117

xulab, an ant, 36

xulub, horns, 118

xux, a wasp, 60

xux ek, Venus, 60

yax, green; blue; fresh; strong; virile; early, 95; a month name, 119

yax che, green tree, 45, 48

yax kin, a month name, 118, 129

yax kukul, a feather ornament, 95

yé, to appear, to show oneself, 43

yetal, and, 100

yum, father, ruler, 41

zac, white, east, v. pp. 109, 110; a month name, 119

zacal, to weave, 109

zacan, bread, 109

zac ik, east wind, 41

zac nohol ik, southeast wind, 41

zac xaman ik, northeast wind, 41

zac zini, white being, 41

zaztal ek, Venus, 34

zec, a month name, 117

zin, to stretch out, 75

zinaan, a scorpion, 75

zinaan ek, a constellation, 75

zinil, the earth, 75

zip, a month name, 117

zipik kin, the sunset, 117

zodz, a bat; a month name, 117

zuhuy, a virgin, 42

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