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Cakchiquel

noun
1.
A member of the Mayan people living in south central Guatemala.
2.
The Mayan language spoken by the Cakchiquel.





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... German Orkan, Eng. hurricane. This word is given in the Livre Sacre des Quiches as the name of their highest divinity, but the resemblance may be accidental. Father Ximenes, who translated the Livre Sacre, derives the name from the Quiche hu rakan, one foot. Father Thomas Coto, in his Cakchiquel Dictionary, (MS. in the library of the Am. Phil. Soc.) translates diablo by hurakan, but as the equivalent of the ...
— The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations • Daniel G. Brinton


Words linked to "Cakchiquel" :   Mayan, Maya, Mayan language


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