Yucatán
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Yucatan
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Mexico_map%2C_MX-YUC.svg/220px-Mexico_map%2C_MX-YUC.svg.png)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish Yucatán. Several etymologies for this name have been proposed:
- Perhaps the most well-known is where it is said to derive from Tabasco Chontal Yokot'an, being either tectetan, meaning “I do not understand you” or uyutan, uyukatan, or yukutan, “listen to them talk!”.
- Bernal Diaz derived the name from the vegetable yuca + tale, a hillock in which the tuber is planted.
Proper noun
[edit]Yucatán
- A peninsula in North America incorporating the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo as well as Belize and northeastern Guatemala.
- A state of Mexico.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a peninsula in North America
|
a state in Mexico
|
See also
[edit]Czech
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yucatán m inan
Declension
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Tabasco Chontal Yokot'an.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: Yu‧ca‧tán
Proper noun
[edit]Yucatán m
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Yucatán on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Turkish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yucatán
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from Tabasco Chontal
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms spelled with Á
- English terms spelled with ◌́
- en:Yucatán
- en:States of Mexico
- en:Places in Mexico
- en:Peninsulas
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- cs:Yucatán
- cs:States of Mexico
- cs:Places in Mexico
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Spanish terms derived from Tabasco Chontal
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/an
- Rhymes:Spanish/an/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Yucatán
- es:States of Mexico
- es:Places in Mexico
- es:Peninsulas
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish proper nouns
- Turkish terms spelled with Á
- Turkish terms spelled with ◌́
- tr:Yucatán
- tr:States of Mexico
- tr:Places in Mexico