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buluk

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Cornish

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Etymology

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Noun

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buluk m (singulative bulugen)

  1. (collective) earthworms

Mutation

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Mutation of buluk
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
buluk vuluk unchanged puluk fuluk vuluk

Epigraphic Mayan

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Alternative forms

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Numeral

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buluk

  1. eleven

Yucatec Maya

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Greater Lowland *buluky-, from Proto-Mayan *bʼeleng (nine) + *kaaʼbʼ (two). Equivalent to bolon (nine) +‎ kaʼah (two).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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buluk

  1. (obsolete) eleven

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 152:Buluc. Onze. 11.
  • Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 52