peekʼ

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• pek (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from a Zapotec language (cf. Isthmus Zapotec bi'cu'), from a Mixe-Zoquean language (cf. Isthmus Mixe uk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpèːkʼ]

Noun

peekʼ

1. dog

Related terms

• peekʼil

See also

• chiʼibal

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 177: “Perro. Pek”
• Kaufman, Terrence, Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], page 572: “[from Sapoteko *pe7kku (in turn from Mije-Sokean *7uku)]”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 71