chiʼik

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a Mixe-Zoquean language, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *ȼiku.

Noun

chiʼik

  1. white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)

References
  • 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: “Pizóte. Chic, cotonchic.”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 53
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