Reconstruction:Proto-Mayan/maaʼx

This Proto-Mayan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Mayan

Noun

*maaʼx

spider monkey

Descendants

Lacandon: maʼax
Yucatec Maya: maʼax

References

Brown, Cecil H., Wichmann, Søren (2004 April) “Proto-Mayan syllable nuclei”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 70, number 2, →DOI, pages 128–186: “*maaʼx ‘spider monker’”
Kaufman, Terrence, Justeson, John (2003) A Preliminary Mayan Etymological Dictionary‎^[1], page 561: “pM *maax [diffused]”