buluk
Cornish
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Noun
editbuluk m (singulative bulugen)
Mutation
editYucatec Maya
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editEtymology
editFrom Greater Lowland *buluky-, from Proto-Mayan *bʼeleng (“nine”) + *kaaʼbʼ (“two”). Equivalent to bolon (“nine”) + kaʼah (“two”).
Pronunciation
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References
edit- 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 152: “Buluc. Onze. 11.”
- Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 52