The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics, by Daniel G. Brinton

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