lahkaʼa

Yucatec Maya

Etymology

Equivalent to lahun (“ten”) +‎ kaʼah (“two”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Numeral

lahkaʼa

1. (obsolete) twelve

References

• 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 152: “Lahcà. Doze. 12.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 65