Reconstruction:Proto-Mayan/haʼ
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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
*haʼ
Descendants
- Achi: yaʼ
- Aguacateca: akʼ
- Akatek: jaʼ
- Ch'orti': jaʼ
- Chol: jaʼ
- Epigraphic Mayan: haʼ
- Itza': jaʼ
- Ixil: aʼ
- Jakaltek: haꞌ
- K'iche': jaʼ
- Lacandon: jaʼ
- Mopan Maya: jaʼ
- Tz'utujil: yaʼ
- Tzeltal: jaʼ, haʼ
- Tzotzil: ʼaʼ
- Wastek: jaʼ
- Yucatec Maya: jaʼ
- ⇒ Q'anjob'al: aʼej
References
- Brown, Cecil H., Wichmann, Søren (2004 April) “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 70, number 2, , pages 128–186: “*haʼ ‘water’”
- Kaufman, Terrence, Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary, pages 552–553: “pM *Ha7, *r-Ha7-aal”