tsʼonoʼot

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• dzonot (obsolete)
• tzʼonot (obsolete)
• tsʼonot (obsolete)

Etymology

Unknown (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʼonóʔot/, [t͡sʼoˈnóo̰t]

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[s] that plug the cenote, / Two white ones, [and] two yellow ones, / I wish to eat [them].

   • 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^[1], 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
  • → Dutch: cenote
  • → English: cenote
  • → French: cénote
  • → Italian: cenote

References

• Gómez Navarrete, Javier A. (2009) Diccionario Introductorio Español-Maya, Maya-Español‎^[2] (in Spanish), Chetumal: Universidad de Quintana Roo, archived from the original on 2010-10-11, page 180.