Reconstruction:Proto-Mayan/kyar

This Proto-Mayan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mayan

Noun

*kyar

fish

Descendants

Kaqchikel: kär
Yucatec Maya: kay

References

Brown, Cecil H.; Wichmann, Søren (April 2004), “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 70, issue 2, DOI:10.1086/424553, pages 128–186: “*kyar ‘fish’”
Kaufman, Terrence; Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎, pages 648–650: “pM *kar”