tsʼonoʼot

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Yucatec Maya

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

tsʼonoʼot (plural tsʼonoʼotoʼob)

  1. cenote
    • 1782, Juan Josef Hoil, Chilam Balam of Chumayel; republished as Richard N. Luxton, transl., The Book of Chumayel: The Counsel Book of the Yucatec Maya, 1539-1638, Aegean Park Press, 1995, lines 1136–1138:
      Xen mol ten u mac yit tzʼonot / Cappel sasaci cappel kankani / Yan uol yn hante.
      Go and bring me the stopper that plug the cenote, / Two white ones, two yellow ones, / I wish to eat .
    • 2023 December 11, Astrid Sánchez, “Jóok’sa’ab kex 4 tóoneladas sojol ichil u ts’ono’otilo’ob Yucatán”, in Sasil Sánchez Chan, transl., La Jornada Maya, retrieved 2024-01-27:
      Ti’ tsoolmeyaj beeta’ab te’e ja’aba’, jts’a’ab k’ajóoltbile’ úuchik u meyaje’ béeychaj u jóok’sa’al ba’al ti’ 116 u p’éel ts’ono’oto’ob yéetel áaktuno’ob.
      In this year's report, it was announced that with these works, it was possible to extract garbage from 116 cenotes and caves.

Descendants

  • Spanish: cenote

References

  • Gómez Navarrete, Javier A. (2009) Diccionario Introductorio Español-Maya, Maya-Español (in Spanish), Chetumal: Universidad de Quintana Roo, archived from the original on 2010-10-11, page 180.