ukʼ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uk"

Kaqchikel

Noun

ukʼ

1. Alternative spelling of ükʼ

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• uk (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *ukʼ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈukʼ]

Noun

ukʼ

1. louse

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: “Piojo. Uk.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 80