maʼax

Lacandon

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *maaʼx.

Noun

maʼax

  1. monkey

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms
  • maáx (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *maaʼx.

Noun

maʼax

  1. monkey

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: “Mono. Maáx”
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 67
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