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Yucatec Maya
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *ahyiin.
Pronunciation
Noun
áayin
- crocodile, caiman, alligator
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 176: “Lagarto,cocodrilo. Ain, ò chiuan”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 50