tzʼaʼay
Yucatec Maya
Alternative forms
- ɔay (obsolete)
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *u-tz'ii7 7eeh, from *tz'i7 (“dog”) + *7eeh (“tooth”).
Noun
tzʼaʼay
- canine tooth
- fang
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 165: “Ɔay sssss ssssss Colmillo.”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 79