peekʼ
Yucatec Maya
Alternative forms
- pek (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from a Zapotec language (cf. Isthmus Zapotec biꞌcuꞌ), from a Mixe-Zoquean language (cf. Isthmus Mixe uk).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpèːkʼ]
Noun
peekʼ
- dog
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: “Perro. Pek”
- Kaufman, Terrence; Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary, page 572: “[from Sapoteko *pe7kku (in turn from Mije-Sokean *7uku)]”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 71