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K'iche'
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *bʼaaʼtzʼ.
Noun
batzʼ
- howler monkey
Tzotzil
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *bʼaaʼtzʼ.
Noun
batzʼ
- howler monkey
References
- Hurley Vda. de Delgaty, Alfa, Ruíz Sánchez, Agustín (1978) “batsꞌ”, in Diccionario tzotzil de San Andrés con variaciones dialectales: Tzotzil - español, español - tzotzil (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 22) (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación a Grupos Marginados, page 19
- Laughlin, Robert M., Haviland, John B. (1988) “batzʼ”, in The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, with Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology; 31), volume 1, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, →DOI, page 162