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Akatek
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
- Susanne Schüle, Perception verb complements in Akatek, a Mayan language, citing Zavala (1992)
Chol
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
- Chol Texts on the Supernatural (1965), page 159
Ch'orti'
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
Itza'
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
K'iche'
Pronunciation
Noun
jaʼ
- water
- liquor
References
Kiliwa
Noun
jaʼ
- Alternative form of ʼjaʼ
References
Lacandon
Adjective
jaʼ
- water
References
- Fisher, William Morrison (1973). Towards the Reconstruction of Proto-Yucatec, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago
Mocho
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
Mopan Maya
Noun
jaʼ
- water
- rain
Derived terms
Adjective
jaʼ
- watery
References
- Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.
Tabasco Chontal
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
- Kathryn C. Keller, Diccionario Chontal de Tabasco, Summer Institute of Linguistics (1997), page 471
Tojolabal
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
- Carlos Lenkersdorf, Tojolabal para principiantes, lengua y cosmovision mayas en Chiapas (1994, México, CRT)
Tzeltal
- haʼ (“obsolete”)
- haˀ (“obsolete”)
Noun
jaʼ
- water
- Tzeltal language learning guide, page 11:
Ya cuchʼ jaʼ- I drink water
Uspanteco
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
- Miguel Angel Vicente Méndez, Diccionario bilingüe uspanteko-español, page 93, 2007
Wastek
Noun
jaʼ
- water
References
Yucatec Maya
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *haʼ.
Pronunciation
Noun
jaʼ (plural jaʼob)
- water
- rain
- lake
Derived terms
References
- Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán, A. C. (2003) Diccionario maya popular: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), →ISBN, page 69: “JAʼ”
- Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo et al. (1980) Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-español, español-maya (in Spanish), Mérida: Ediciones Cordemex, page 165: “HAʼ”
- 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 178: “Agua. .... Haa.”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 57: “haʼ”
- Pío Pérez, Juan (1866–1877) Diccionario de la lengua maya (in Spanish), Mérida de Yucatán: Imprenta literaria, de Juan F. Molina Solís, page 105: “HÁ: agua”