Huiçic, adv. Only, alone, solely.

Huyu, n. Mountain, hill, mound; a land or country, or place of residence (nu huyubal, mi pueblo, Varea). The interior as opposed to the coast. See Taah.

• Ikan, n. A load, a burden, tribute, tax.
• Ikia, n. The right hand. a hand.
• Il, v. a. To reach, to get, to see, to obtain; n. to get to, to arrive at.
• Il, n. Fault, blame.
• In, pron. I.
• Ixim, n. Maize.
• Ixok, n. A woman.
• Io, v. To pass on or beyond; to exceed, surpass.
• Iovibeh, v. To go on, or beyond.

• Ka, pron. Our.
• Kaçah, v. To put down, to conquer, to destroy.
• Kah, v. To descend, descending. See Gram., p, 64.
• Kahibal, n. The place of descent; hence, kahibal ih, the sunset.
• Kel, v. To disobey.
• Ki, part. An interrogative; also, denoting affirmation; often used merely to give strength to an assertion. Gram., p. 71.
• Koch, n. The crow.
• Kul, n. The neck.
• Kup, v. To seize, take by force.
• Kuruh, v. To draw or drag out or on.

• [216]Lab, n. A portent, an augury. See pp. 39, 47.
• Labal, n. An enemy, opponent.
• Labalih, v. To make war, to fight. See p. 47.
• Lehah, v. To fall sick; to grow weak; to be overcome or conquered.
• Lakam, n. The war banner, “bandera de la guerra.”
• Lakeh, v. To bring, to carry, to give.
• Lam, n. The hard part; trunk of a tree, etc.
• Lamaba. To detain one, to prevent him from going.
• Laabeh, v. To enter into a place, to dwell there; to occupy as a residence (entrar á morar en casa. Varea).
• Laeh, v. To join or unite two things; especially to unite in the sexual act.
• Lob, n. Magical power.
• Lol, n. The silence or state of desertion left by a pestilence, etc. See p. 38.
• Lo, v. To prize, to hold dear, to esteem.

• Macamo, v. To take alarm, to be frightened, to wonder at.
• Maha, adv. Even not, not yet.
• Mahanick, adv. Before that, previous to.
• Malohic, n. A preparation of maize (?).
• Mam, n. Grandchild.
• Mama, n. An old man; pl. mamaa, the old men; nu mama, my ancestors; also the rulers of a village; applied to animals it means the male of the species.
• Mani, adv. No, not.
• May, v. A cycle, especially of 20 years. May ih, a calendar for calculating cycles. See p. 31.
• Meal, n. A daughter.
• Meba, adj. Poor.
• Meh, n. A gable in a roof; an angle; a fold in clothing, etc.
• Meho, v. To make an angle or fold; hence, to go to a place and return from it.
• Mem, n. A dumb man; to be dumb.
• Mez, n. A cat. See p. 44.
• Meztah, v. To forget.
• Meen, adj. Warm, hot.
• Mi, adv. Particle, denoting recent past time, prefixed to form the proximate preterit tense.
• Mier, adv. Already, previously.
• [217]Mih, v. To tear up, to tear out or down.
• Mihoh, v. To lie to, to deceive; to ridicule, to laugh at, to mock.
• Mol, v. To gather together scattered things, to fill up, to collect.
• Moyeuh, n. A fog, the mist.
• Muh, n. Shade, shadow; hence, fig. protection, guardianship. See p. 20.
• Muk, v. To hide, to conceal; to bury.
• Mun, adj. Hungry, n. A slave. See p. 39.

• Na, adv. A particle denoting priority, from nabey, first; hence, navipe, and, also, next, until, presently. See Gram., p. 65.
• Na, v. To know, to learn.
• Nabey, adv. First.
• Nabeyah, v. To be first.
• Naek, adv. Although, but.
• Nano, v. To receive more than another.
• Nanoh, adj. Known, said; hence, xa nanoh, already known, aforesaid, etc. From na, to know.
• Naval, n. Knowledge, wisdom; especially occult knowledge, magic, sorcery. See p. 46.
• Nicnic, v. To quiver, to tremble.
• Nima, adj. Great, n. A great thing.
• Nimah, v. To make great, to adore.
• Nimal, n. The elder brother; the head of a home.
• Niah, n. The middle, the center.
• Niahal, n. The middle parts of anything; the sexual parts, etc
• Nu, pron. My, mine.

• Oc, v. To enter.
• Ochoch, n. House. See p. 33.
• Ocox, n. Fungus, of the edible variety.
• Oh, pron. We.
• Oh, adv. Sign of the imperative. Oh a ama pe lae queh, Bring that horse (Varea).
• Ohb, n. A cough.
• Oher, adv. Formerly, in ancient times.
• Ok, adv. When; also the imperative particle.
• Okok, n. Wild goose.
• Oqueçah, v. To put something in something; hence, to put on[218] one’s clothes, to dress onesself. From oc, to enter. Met. to obey.
• Oro, v. To bore, to pierce, to hollow out.
• Oxlahuh, adv. Thirteen.
• Oyevar, v. To become angry.
• Oyobeh, v. To hope.
• O, v. To weep, to cry.
• Oeh, n. A wail, a weeping. v. To bewail.

• Pa, prep. In, to; tan qui be pa huyu, I am going to the mountain pa hay, in the house. Before a vowel, pan is used.
• Pac or Pacay. The anona, the custard apple.
• Pacac, v. To dawn.
• Pae, v. To be on foot, to stand, to be at.
• Palah, v. To annoy, to bother.
• Palouh, n. The ocean, the sea; called also nima ya, the great water. See p. 195.
• Patan, v. Tribute, tax. See p. 39.
• Pax, v. To break; to put to flight, to scatter.
• Paz, n. Swathing bands; folding robes.
• Pe, v. To come. Often used in a peculiar gerundive sense, as a verbal particle. See Gram., p. 64.
• Pek, n. The fruit tree called Pataxte (Guzman).
• Pixa, n. Order, command, direction.
• Pixabah, v. To order, to command.
• Po, v. 1. To cry out loudly. 2. To be angry with some one.
• Pocob, n. A shield. See p. 18.
• Poklah, n. Dust.
• Pokon, n. Trouble, pain.
• Pop, n. A mat; popoh, a council. See p. 36.
• Poroh, v. To burn, to set on fire.
• Poye, v. To put one side, to neglect.
• Poh, v. To divide, to split.
• Puak or Puvak, n. Silver; money, coin. See p. 19.
• Pub, n. The blow-gun, p. 18.
• Puz, n. Power, magic. See p. 46.
• Pu, v. To break up ground; to soak in water; to dissolve or to make into dust. Hence, n. fire, dust.

• Que, pron. They, used with absolute, passive and neuter verbs. Gram., p. 47.
• [219]Queh, n. A deer.
• Quere, adv. Thus, as, even so; querea, therefore; querera, as this; querelae, as that.
• Qui, pron. Those, their.
• Quichin, pron. Of them.
• Quicot, v. To rejoice, to delight in.
• Quir, v. To unloose, untie.
• Qui, n. Blood.

• Rah, v. To wish, tivaho, I wish; (absolute) xraho, he wished.
• Ramon, n. A piece, a bit.
• Ramoneh, v. To reduce to pieces, to overcome.
• Rax, adj. Green, blue; precious, noble; renowned, famous.
• Raxah, n. A tree, a species of plantain.
• Ri, pron. He, she it; this, that; often used in the sense of definite article, ri huyu, the hill.
• Richin, pron. Of that one, of him, his, its.
• Ruma, prep. By, for, with.

• Tacaxepeval, n. Name of the first month of the native calendar.
• Tak, v. To send, to call one, to despatch to one. Gram., p. 42.
• Tahin, part. Of present time.
• Tak, adv. A particle conveying the idea of recurrence or repetition, as hetak, hutak, p. 12. See Gram., p. 72.
• Takchibal, n. That which incites, or persuades. An instrumental form from takchiih.
• Takchiih, v. To incite, move, induce.
• Takeh, v. To obey.
• Tan, adv. Now, at present; particle of present time.
• Tap, n. Crab.
• Tata, n. Father. Originally the reduplication of the particle of courtesy, ta, which is now used by and to married people. It also means lord, ruler. Cf. Gram., p. 72.
• Taah, n. A plain; the sea coast as opposed to the interior. See Huyu.
• Tah, n.
• Tecpan, n. See p. 13.
• Tee, n. Mother. See p. 35.
• Telep, v. To carry on the shoulders.
• Telechuh, v. To wrestle; to take captive; to tie with cords.
• Tem, n. A bench or seat. See p. 20.
• [220]Tepeval, n. Sovereignty, power.
• Teuh, adj. Cold.
• Ti, v. To eat, to bite.
• Ti, pron. He, it, she; you.
• Tih, v. To give to eat, to feed; to invite; to try, to test; to teach, to instruct.
• Tih, n. The doctrine, the teaching.
• Tihoh, v. To teach another.
• Tinamit, n. Town, city.
• Tiohil, n. The body, the bulk of an animal.
• Tiquer, v. To begin, to commence.
• Titil, n. A color. See p. 204.
• Tiuh tiuh, n. See p. 196.
• Tixli, n. The tapir.
• Tiuil, v. To be rooted in the ground. See uil.
• To, v. To aid, to succor.
• Tohoh, v. To make a loud noise, to thunder. See p. 199.
• Tol, v. To abandon.
• Toloba, v. To desert, abandon, forsake.
• Tooh, n. Weapons, of all kinds.
• To, v. To shoot up, to burst forth.
• To, v. To push in, to insert.
• Toe, v. To arrive at a place.
• Tuc, v. To turn, revolve, move about.
• Tucur, n. The owl.
• Tulul, n. The zapote tree.
• Tun, n. A native drum; a branch, a sprout, a twig.
• Tunay, n. The elder tree. Span. sauco.
• Tux, n. A kind of acorn.

• Ucheex, v. To relate, to tell, to say, especially in reporting what others have said. As a rule it follows the words quoted (Coto).
• Ue, conj. If.
• Ul, v. To arrive, to come to.
• Ulaah, v. To arrive at, as a home; to seek as a refuge (Bras.).
• Ulaam, v. To have at one’s house, as a guest, etc.
• Uleuh, n. Earth, soil, land, ground.
• Umul, n. The rabbit.
• Unum, n. The male organ; a worm, a snake.
• Ut, n. Dove.
• Utiuh, n. The coyote.
• [221]Utzin, v. To finish, to complete.
• Ux, v. To be, to become. See Gram., p. 33.
• Uxla, n. The breath; an odor; steam.
• Uxlan, v. To rest, to repose, to take breath (from uxla).

• Va, part. Here, now.
• Va, v. To eat.
• Vach, n. Face, visage, front; surface, superficies; brightness, splendor; fruit, products, profits; power, dignity.
• Vachih, v. To see with one’s own eyes; to have before one’s face.
• Vae, part. This, this is, here is.
• Vapal, n. The lintel of a door, the frame of a window, etc.
• Var, v. To sleep.
• Vave, adv. Here.
• Vay, n. Bread, of any kind.
• Vayhal, n. Hunger.
• Vi, n. The head.
• Vi, part. A correlative and instrumental particle. See Gram., p. 63.
• Vik, v. To increase or add something; to ornament, to adorn; to arrange, to set in order by adding to.
• Vinak, n. Man, the human species; a people.
• Vinak chij, n. Injury or misfortune; a legal term applied to certain torts.
• Vuk, adj. Seven.

• Xa, part. But, only, etc. An antithetical particle, used in many connections, as xae, xa a, xa ri a, va xe re, xa a, xe re, xa ha, all signify but, next, etc.
• Xah, v. To move actively and cheerfully; hence, to dance; of a dog, to wag his tail.
• Xahab, n. Sandals, shoes, moccasins.
• Xahan, n. Prohibition, abstention.
• Xahaneh, v. To abstain from, to refrain.
• Xahpota hih, n. Body armor. (“Malla ô peto.” Varea).
• Xak, n. 1. Leaf. 2. Dye, color, tint. See p. 204.
• Xambey, n. One who follows another.
• Xambeyah, v. To do something later than another, to follow, to come after.
• Xane, v. To strip, to uncover.
• Xaquere, adv. But thus; see Xa.
• [222]Xavia. See Xa.
• Xax. Particle of affirmation, an intensive.
• Xhayil, n. A married woman, a wife. From hay, with the fem. prefix—“the woman of the house.”
• Xim, v. To tie, to bind onesself; to assume.
• Xiquin, n. Ears.
• Xit, n. The jade, the green stone (piedra verde como torquesa. Varea).
• Xivae, n. A conch shell used as a horn.
• Xmier, adv. Already, formerly; xmierok, before, previously.
• Xocon, n. The left hand; chu xocon, on the left.
• Xoh, pron. We.
• Xo, Xooh, v. To complain against one.
• Xoh, n. The owl; a malicious person.
• Xul, n. A flute.
• Xule, v. To descend, to go down.
• Xu, n. A net used by the Indians of the Sierra to catch birds.
• Xul, n. A kind of dance. See p. 45.

• Ya, v. To give, to present.
• Yaar, v. To spoil, waste, go to ruin.
• Yac, n. To build a house; to contract for, ask for.
• Yala, v. To surpass, become distinguished.
• Yaloh, v. To delay, to remain.
• Yamalakin, v. To give presents.
• Yamanic, n. Precious stone.
• Yanabil, n. Sickness, disease.
• Ybah, n. The ancient site of a town; the hereditary home; the cement of a house. From ybil, to ripen, to mature.
• Ye, v. To tread under foot, to detest, to hate.
• Ylon, v. To overtake one (alcanzar á otro que va adelante. Varea).
• Yncheel, adv. How, in what manner.
• Ynup, n. The ceiba tree.
• Yoh, v. To destroy, tear down.
• Yon, adv. Only, alone; ruyon, he or it alone or only. See Gram., p. 32.
• Yo, v. To knead dough. Met. to bruise.
• Yuh, v. To mix, to mingle.
• Yuhuh, n. A quarrel, a revolt.
• Yuk, v. To string out, to stretch out, like a rope. Hence
• [223]Yuku, n. A rope or cord. Varea.
• Yuyub, n. Shouts.
• Yx, pron. You.
• Yxim, n. Maize (the grains).
• Yo, v. To pass over; to go from one place to another.

• a, n. The hand, the arm.
• aba, v. To place supports; to strengthen; to extend the hands.
• ahan, v. To sound, to resound; to snore, etc.
• ahar, v. To expend, to expand.
• ahartizah, v. To praise, to commend.
• alaba, v. To cause misfortune, to make miserable.
• alah, adj. n. Something clear, apparent, manifest.
• alel. See p. 37.
• alibal, n. Seat, see, throne. “Asieñto del señor principal.” Coto. See p. 20.
• am, n. Bridge, stairs.
• ana abah, n. A color. See p. 204.
• an, adj. Yellow; ripe; rich.
• arama, n. Nation, confederation.
• at, v. To cut, in general; hence, to decide a question; to ford a river; to die early, etc.
• avonon, n. A yellow bug; from an, yellow, and Vonon, bug. (Guzman).
• ax, v. 1. To pass, to pass over. 2. To bring forth, to give birth to.
• a, n. Fire.
• aal, n. Distinction, greatness.
• ek, adj. Black; dark.
• ekal, n. Blackness, darkness.
• ekum, n. The darkness of the night.
• ih, n. The sun; a day; a time or epoch; an occasion or opportunity; the sign or constellation under which one is born; hence, fate or fortune. Ahih, the diviner; cholol ih, to cast the horoscope.
• ihib, v. To divine, to predict, to tell fortunes.
• il, v. To prevent, impede, harass.
• inom, adj. Rich. n. riches.
• iomah, n. This appears to be a form of inomah, riches.
• [224]ip, v. To take up in the fingers; to pinch.
• o, v. To sustain, to maintain, to give to eat.
• ol, n. Resin from the pine.
• op, n. Ear rings.
• uzum, n. Delicacy, something delicious to eat.
• u, n. A species of bird. See p. 204.
• uuraxon, n. Green feathers; the plumage of certain birds.

• a, conj. And, also.
• abovil, n. The deity, God, divinity.
• açe, v. To survive, to grow strong.
• ahol, n. A son, sons; also, generally, descendants of a common ancestor.
• aholah, v. To beget, engender.
• ak, v. To shoot with arrows; to stone. 2. To place onesself in front of another.
• akaba, v. To show onesself.
• al, v. To tie together, to arrange in order as by tying.
• alakan, n. Small bells tied together. See p. 17.
• am, v. To take, to bear away; especially to take a woman in marriage, to marry.
• anixt, n. A bird. See p. 197.
• arunah, adv. The same, again.
• axto, n. The Evil Spirit.
• ay, adj. Pungent, bitter, strong of smell or taste.
• ayh, v. To sell.
• aalih, v. To guard.
• eche, n. A forest, a woods.
• el, n. A small species of parrot.
• exevach, n. Substitute, one who stands for another (Anon).
• iyaley, adv. That which exceeds; used in comparison. See Gram., p. 67.
• iy, adv. Much, many.
• iyar, v. To multiply, to increase.
• iz, v. To finish, to conclude, to end.
• oh, v. To be in a place, etc. Spanish, estar. See Gram., p. 33.
• ok, okoh, v. To complain (quejarse á Dios. Varea, p. 414).
• ol, v. To cut down, to send out from, to diminish, to lessen.
• [225]ot, v. To dig a hole. Met. to examine verbally, to interrogate, to cross-question.
• otoh, v. 1. To engrave, to sculpture. otonic, that which is sculptured. 2. To set in order, to arrange battalions, etc.
• okikan, n. Loads of roasted maize, used as food on long journeys; from o, “mais cocido,” and kikan.
• ox, v. To clash; to strike hard things together, ta oxel a to strike fire with the flint (Varea).
• oxol, n. He who dashes together hard things, as stones. See ox.
• oxom, n. That which is dashed together, as stones. See ox.
• oxtun, n. Fortress, stronghold.
• u, v. To put well in order, to arrange.
• ual, n. Diamond, or other precious stone.
• ubul, n. Garlands (Br.). From u, to arrange in order, to put in place.
• uil, v. To throw down to the ground, to lie or roll upon the ground; to annoy, harass.
• ul, n. All kinds of clothing; vesture, etc.
• ul, v. To receive; to meet, to go out to meet one; to visit one; to converse, to reply to, to be beaten.
• ule, v. To marry.
• ulvachih, v. To meet face to face. From ul, to receive, to meet, and vach, face.
• ut, v. To show, to make manifest.
• utuh, v. To ask, to inquire.
• ux, n. The heart; the mind.
• ha, n. The bow; the arrow.

• ha, habeh,

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  v. To speak to talk, to say.

• habak, n. Mud.
• hac, n. A pestilence.
• hac, v. To conquer, to overpower.
• hac, n. Flesh, meat.
• hacatah, v. To sit down, to rest seated; to reduce in value, to depreciate.
• hacbal, n. A victory, a conquest.
• hacat, n. A seat, a throne. See p. 20.
• [226]haka, prep. From the other side; haka palouh, from beyond the sea; he ah haka ya, those from the other side of the water, a term applied to the Spaniards (Varea).
• hakap, n. and adv. The half, partly.
• hamey, n. Cane, staff; a badge of office; ahhamey, the alguacil or constable.
• haoh, n. See p. 55.
• hay, v. To injure, destroy. 2. To fasten, solder.
• hi, v. To disquiet, to be noisy.
• hih, v. To suffer, to bear.
• hipil, n. The youngest son.
• hique, v. To appoint, to resolve upon.
• hih, n. Iron, copper. See p. 19.
• hob, n. Division, class, order, battalion.
• hocoba, v. To seat a person.
• hol, v. To skin, to bark, to clean; to acquit, to rid of.
• holih, v. To value, to put a value upon; hence, holih ih, to value days, to decide which are lucky and which unlucky; hol ih, an astrological calendar. See p. 31.
• hub, v. To ravage, as a pestilence.
• huc, n. The arm, or arms.
• hutin, adj. Small, little, young.

• ak, v. To work in clay; to make bricks or tiles; to make, to create. 2. To joke; to make fun. 3. To lie, to deceive.
• akol, n. The maker, the creator.
• alam. See p. 32.
• anin, v. To sound loudly, to make a great noise, of people, trumpets, dancing, etc.
• apal, n. An enclosure; that which is shut up or enclosed; from ape, neuter of tin apih, shut up or enclose.
• apibal, n. The place where something is enclosed or shut up. See apal, and p. 197.
• i, n. A dog.
• ibah, v. To paint; to write. See p. 16.
• ima, n. A sharp-pointed tool; v. to dig with one (Ximenes).
• iquin, n. A bird, the generic word.
• iz, v. To sew, to puncture.
• [227]iot, v. To hiss (of a snake), to squeak (of a rat), to whistle (of a bird), etc.
• um. 1. The breasts, the mammae. 2. A skin, a hide.
• umah, v. To suck, to take the breast; to reduce a swelling; to lessen, to diminish.
• utuh, n. A flower, especially of the maize.

• Tzak, v. To throw, to fall; to tangle, to trip; to hinder; to go from the road; to drop a subject, a lawsuit, etc.; to pardon; to excuse onesself; to cease, to die.
• Tzal, v. To make war, to give battle.
• Tzam, n. 1. Nose, beak, snout, of man, bird or brute. 2. The point or end of anything.
• Tzap, n. Fault, evil, misdemeanor. See p. 28.
• Tzara, n. A snare to take birds, etc.
• Tzayh, v. To do an injury without cause.
• Tzatz, adv. Much, many, thickly, densely.
• Tzih, n. A word, a speech.
• Tzihoxic, n. That which has been said; a passive verbal from tzih.
• Tzimay, n. A cup, or drinking vessel.
• Tzolih, v. To turn; to return; to turn one’s thoughts upon, etc.
• Tzuy, n. A large calabash or gourd.
• Tzuk, v. To sustain, to maintain.
• Tzul, v. To intertwine, to embrace, to sleep together.

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