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Kaqchikel
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *q'a7aam.
Noun
qʼan
- stairs
- bridge
References
- anonymous author (17th c.) Uocabulario copioso de las lenguas cakchikel y ꜭiche (in Spanish), page 565: “Ꜫam. escalera o puente.”
- Brown, R. McKenna, Maxwell, Judith M., Little, Walter E. (2006) ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 241