áayin

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• ain (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *ahyiin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈáːjin]

Noun

áayin

1. crocodile, caiman, alligator

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 176: “Lagarto,cocodrilo. Ain, ò chiuan”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 50