buluk

Cornish

Etymology

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Noun

buluk f (singulative bulugen)

1. earthworms

Yucatec Maya

Alternative forms

• buluc (obsolete)

Etymology

From Greater Lowland *buluky-, from Proto-Mayan *bʼeleng (“nine”) + *kaaʼbʼ (“two”). Equivalent to bolon (“nine”) +‎ kaʼah (“two”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɓuluk]

Numeral

buluk

1. (obsolete) eleven

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 152: “Buluc. Onze. 11.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 52