áayin

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Yucatec Maya

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mayan *ahyiin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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áayin

  1. crocodile, caiman, alligator

References

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  • 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 176:Lagarto,cocodrilo. Ain, ò chiuan
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 50