Reconstruction:Proto-Mayan/moohch

This Proto-Mayan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mayan

Noun

*moohch

toad

Descendants

Yucatec Maya: muuch

References

Brown, Cecil H., Wichmann, Søren (2004 April) “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 70, number 2, →DOI, pages 128–186: “*moohchʼ ‘toad’”
Kaufman, Terrence, Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎, page 645: “pM *7amooch”

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